Unit 7 Eiffel TowerStatue of Liberty Colosseum 罗马竞技场Leaning Tower of Pisa The Pyramids in Egypt The Great WallStonehenge The megalithic ruin known as Stonehenge stands on the open downland of Salisbury Plain two miles (three kilometres) west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, in Southern England
It is not a single structure but consists of a series of earth, timber, and stone structures that were revised and re-modelled over a period of more than 1400 years•Stonehenge is surely Britain‘s greatest national icon, symbolizing mystery, power
Its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities (神)
It has been called an astronomical (天文学的) observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar (历