HISTORIAN CLAIMS STONEHENGE HAS ARMENIAN LINKS
Britain News.Net
Tuesday 10th February, 2009 (ANI)
London, Feb 10 : A historian has suggested a link between the
Stonehenge and an ancient circle of standing stones known as Carahunge
in Armenia, which predates the historic site in England.
According to a report in the Salisbury Journal, the historian in
question is Vardan Levoni Tadevosyan, an Armenian/Spanish historian
of the occult who visited Salisbury to raise the profile of Carahunge,
dubbed the Armenian Stonehenge.
"It’s a very important monument, not just for Armenia, but for the
whole world," he said.
Carahunge, meaning ‘speaking stones’, is located 200 km from the
Armenian capital Yerevan, near a town called Sisian.
There are over 200 stones on the seven-hectare site and many of the
stones have smooth angled holes in them, directed at different points
in the sky, leading scientists to believe it is the world’s oldest
observatory, dating back 7500 years.
Tadevosyan is very passionate about wanting people to know more about
Carahunge and has his own theories on its links with Stonehenge.
His research of the last four years is based on the work done by
Professor Paris Herouni, a member of the Armenian National Academy
of Science and president of the Radiophysics Research Institute
in Yerevan.
Professor Herouni started investigating Carahunge more than 20 years
ago and wrote a book, Armenians and Old Armenia, on his findings.
He sent the book to Prof G.S. Hawkins, who had investigated Stonehenge,
and he agreed with Herouni’s findings.
According to Tadevosyan, in neolithic times, the Armenians were much
more advanced than most other cultures.
A carving found on rocks near Lake Sevan showed they knew the world
was round, they could accurately measure latitude, and they were
already skilled in astronomy, archaeology and engineering.
He believes the earliest population of Britain, who came from Armenia,
brought the ideas of Carahunge to Europe with them and played some
part in the creation of Stonehenge and other European sites.
Tadevosyan plans to put together a leaflet about Carahunge that can be
available to the public at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
and curator Adrian Green said he would be happy to display leaflets
about the ancient site.