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1. This is the Megalithic Wiki at Wikia Edit

The Megalithic Wiki is intended as a detailed source of information about megaliths and megalithic sites around the world, including but not limited to dolmens, menhirs, cairns, standing stones, stone circles, henges, earthworks, petroglyphs, etc. and including detailed descriptions, all possible interpretations (e.g. archaeoastronomy), GPS locations, original user photographs of megalithic sites, bibliographies of research materials, literature, books, authors, websites, online journals (blogs), old and new media such as film and videos, etc. Terminology relating to megalithic sites is also to be included in the Megalithic Wiki entries.

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"Some persons are of the opinion that Hecataeus of Abdera, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, and of Ptolemy, made allusion to Stonehenge in his "History of the Hyperboreans." In this work he described them as inhabiting an island as large as Sicily, lying towards the north, over against the country of the Celts.... In this island was a round temple which was dedicated to Apollo...." There is no "consensus" of Antiquaries [about the significance of Stonehenge]. Every kind of theory has been proposed, and as regularly combated. And so it will be to the end of time. Each generation considers itself wiser than the preceding, and better able to explain those matters which to their fathers and grandfathers only appeared more difficult of explanation as they advanced in their enquiries. And thus it has come to pass that more books have been printed about the much-frequented Stonehenge than about all the other megalithic structures, collectively, which the world contains; and that the literature of this, the best known of them all, would fill the shelves of a small library."
- William Long, Stonehenge and its Barrows, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. xvi, 1876.