September
03
/ 2020
A mini model of Stonehenge has been built in the UK by researchers using the latest technologies. They were interested in the acoustics of the structure that dates to the Neolithic period (2200 BC). The results show that Stonehenge had excellent acoustics, which is helping researchers to better understand the structure. Trevor Cox and his colleagues, at the University of Salford in Britain, decided to make a replica of the famous sacred megalithic structure. The researchers needed their model to represent the stones still standing and also those that are missing: Stonehenge when complete had 157 stone. The Daily Mail reports that “to recreate the original shapes and positions of the stones, researchers began by using laser scanning data of
