According to this version, dolmens are the same age as the Sphinx: they are more than 10,000 years old. The Intermediate Bronze Age (IB) of the Southern Levant is known as the Dark Ages. Others believe that such structures were used as a final resting place for dying people. Some are inclined to believe that dolmens, like the pyramids of Egypt, are part of the information grid of the ancient world. Burial dolmens continued to be used in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages © Pixabay However, the answers to the question “Why are dolmens needed?” scientists do have it. It is not known for certain yet how the peers of the ancient Egyptian civilization managed to work with such boulders (even possessing modern technology, it is now very difficult to build such a colossal structure). The purpose of these megalithic structures is argued in the same way as about the meaning of the construction of Stonehenge. Poulnabrone Dolmen, County Clare, Ireland © Ulrich Fox / Wikimedia Commons As a building material, either individual stone blocks were used, or a building was carved out of a huge stone. Dolmens were built in the form of a trapezoid, a rectangle, and sometimes even circular structures are found. The ancient builders did not process the blocks from the outside, from which they created their extraordinary buildings, however, the stone walls and the ceiling were matched to each other so precisely that even a knife blade would not squeeze into the gap between them.
A notable feature of the dolmens is the unusual oval-shaped hole in the front slab. Such a roof can be up to 10 meters long and weigh several tens of tons. The giant tumulus of Dolmen 3 was built on a slope slanting steeply toward the west. The total weight of the basalt stones used is estimated at ca.
The Dolmen 3 tumulus, built around a central chamber (3a), is 20 meters in diameter. So what are dolmens and why are they needed? Stonehenge, a neolithic stone monument constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.Ī dolmen is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or “table”. The architecture of Dolmen 3 is that of the circular tumulus described above but is unique in its size. But few people know that ancient builders erected structures of a similar plan all over the world. When it comes to megalithic buildings, a familiar association immediately pops up in my head – Stonehenge.
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