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HIGH WONDERCarnac Stones
Why did a pre-literate Neolithic society raise more than 3,000 stones into converging rows stretching for kilometers near Carnac, and was the plan ceremonial, calendrical, territorial, or all three at once?
c. 4500-3300 BCE (Neolithic) · Carnac, Brittany, FranceAdded July 2026
HIGH WONDERThe Pont du Gard
How did Roman surveyors, working with a water-level trough and a sighting frame, lay out a 50-kilometre water channel that falls only about a dozen metres end to end — and then carry it across a river gorge on three tiers of dry-laid stone that drop just 2.5 centimetres from one bank to the other?
mid-1st century CE (long attributed instead to c. 19 BCE) · Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Gard, Occitanie, FranceAdded September 2026