Stonehenge and the origin of its builders

The photograph shows Stonehenge: huge stone pillars standing in a green field, some of them topped with horizontal stone slabs.

An international group of American and British scientists concluded that Stonehenge was built by people who came to Britain from the Mediterranean 6000 years ago. The researchers analysed the DNA of people who lived near Stonehenge 4–5 thousand years ago. According to this test, the Britons had nothing to do with building Stonehenge, and the builders’ genetics match those of people who lived in the territories of Greece and the Armenian Highlands.

Specialists believe these people reached Britain about 6000 years ago, when the Minoan culture was spreading across Greece and the Armenian Highlands.