Digging up stonehenge.

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[2] AMESBURY, England -- It's one of history's great mysteries: Why did humans living thousands of years ago transport huge stones hundreds of mites to build the ring we know as Stonehenge? Two archaeologists set out on March 31 to dig up an answer. Stonehenge experts Geoff Wainwright and Tim Darvill are the first people with permission to dig inside the rock ring in more than 40 years. They are looking for chips from the monument's original bluestones, the rings of 6-foot-high stones that stood inside the huge outer pillars. They hope to use those bits of stones and any shells or bones found around them to determine exactly when Stonehenge was built. The guess right now is that Stonehenge was started around 3000 B.C. and the first bluestones arrived around 2600 B.C. Darvill and Wainwright believe Stonehenge was built as a healing place. They previously traced some of the volcanic bluestones to an area of Wares where they found inscriptions indicating a belief that the stones were magical. See video of Stonehenge at tinyurl.com/2kgodk.