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The idea that Stonehenge once served as an ancient solar calendar has seemingly been upended by a new examination of the popular hypothesis. Archaeologist Timothy Darvill sparked headlines last March when he published a paper wherein he presented his argument for the longstanding theory. Despite the research being heralded in the media as having 'solved' the mystery of the famed monument, not everyone was convinced of that conclusion. In response to Darvill's work, archaeoastronomy experts Juan Antonio Belmonte and Giulio Magli have published a new paper in which they reportedly contend that it is "based on a series of forced interpretations of the astronomical connections of the monument, as well as on debatable numerology and unsupported analogies."
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