US EditionCelebrating the beauty and mystery of Carnac’s ancient megaliths
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Celebrating the beauty and mystery of Carnac’s ancient megaliths
Some 500 kilometres west of Paris, on Brittany’s Atlantic coast, stand the mysterious prehistoric stone alignments of Morbihan – now on Unesco's World Heritage list. RFI went to see why the ancient site still casts a spell on visitors.
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From the Carnac alignments in France to the monuments of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, the history of megalithism shows that the monumental constructions were not unique to Europe or after the Bronze Age. For the first time the Count of Caylus described the stones of Carnac at the end of the seventeenth century, and Jacques Cambry linked these structures with the Druids. However, recent archaeological finds have shown that complexes such as Göbekli Te…
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