Secrets Of Megaliths

Name megalith (from the Greek words: great and rock), 1867th The manual was introduced in the famous French grammarian and encyclopedist PA Larousse. It is believed that the megalithic culture - the longest and most widespread architectural culture in history - grew up around the 3800th The p.n.e. and that lasted nearly three millennia. But as she started it is not clear. It was suddenly, at the very beginning of human history, at that time, which is considered to be the man he first moved from a primitive way of life by sophisticated civilizations. Megaliths were quickly spread throughout the world, but it is not known, nor what prompted this development.

How much is still possible to conclude, megalithic architecture originated in the southeastern Mediterranean, the area of ​​present-day Libya and Palestine, where he appeared in various forms back in the fifth Millennium p.n.e. The oldest European megalithic culture is built on the Iberian peninsula, and then quickly spread to the area of ​​present-day France, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, to remote and Orkney and Shetland islands north of Scotland, where withdrawals are also megalithic structures.
Spread of the megalithic culture in Europe is attributed to - with a big 'maybe ' - ancient mariners, who posed as a logical explanation for this conundrum. However, the emergence of many indigenous cultures in megalitit each other very remote parts of the world (Africa, India, Oceania, Central America) remains a mystery, and this explanation into question.