1. By Candela Botello

3.  History of Stonehenge dates back between the year
3,100 B.C. and 1,100 B.C.
 Stonehenge is one of the great historical monuments
that stands mysteriously in southern England, in a
region known as the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
 This monument is made of magnificent stones. Some
of them weigh up to 25 tons; the most heaviest of all
weighs about 45 tons.
 These stones measure a height of approximately 3.5
to 7.5 meters.
 This structure has a circle of stones surrounding the
inner altar stone, that is situated right at the center
of the Stonehenge.
 The stones were placed in increasing order of its
height towards the center of the structure to get an
obelisk shape.

5.  The Cave of Altamira is near the town of Santillana del Mar, in
Cantabria, northern Spain.
 The cave contains prehistoric paintings on the walls that date
back 18,000 to 15,000 B.C.
 It was the first cave with prehistoric paintings discovered.
 The artworks at Altamira are incredibly beautiful, even by
contemporary standards.
 It’s called 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistoric Art‘.
 They evidence wonderful use of colors, which the artists used
natural dyes to create.
 These artists also made use of the natural contours of the cave
walls to give their images a three-dimensional impact.
 The Altamira cave paintings include a few images of animals like
horses, a deer, and goats, as well as a number of human
handprints.
 But it is the large herd of bison thundering across the ceiling that
captures our imagination the most.

7.  The Cave of Lascaux is near the country town of Brive-la-
Gaillarde, in southern France.
 The cave contains prehistoric paintings on the walls that
date back 15,000 to 13,000 B.C.
 The cave contains nearly 2,000 figures.
 Over 900 are of animals. 605 of these have been precisely
identified.
 Horses predominate, with 364 images. There are 90
paintings of deers.
 Other images include seven felines, a bird, a bear, a
rhinoceros, and a human.
 The four black bulls are the dominant figures among the 36
animals represented in the Hall of the Bulls.
 One of the bulls is 17 feet long -- the largest animal
discovered so far in cave art. The bulls appear to be in
motion.

9.  The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric
hill figure, 110 m long (374 feet), formed
from trenches filled with crushed white
chalk.
 The figure is situated on the upper slopes of
White Horse Hill, in the parish of Uffington,
Oxfordshire.
 The ancient horse is believed to be around
3,000 years old, created in the late Bronze
age.
 Its unusual shape has been featured on coins
as long ago as the Iron age