4,000-Year-Old Stonehenge Of The Netherlands Reveals Its Secrets

[Judi Lynn]

AncientPages.com | June 22, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands".

Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar. Inside the burial mound, archaeologists came across the remains of some 60 men, women, and children had several passages through which the sun directly shone on the longest and shortest days of the year.



Credit: Gemeente Tiel

“What a spectacular archaeological discovery! Archaeologists have found a 4,000-year-old religious sanctuary on an industrial site.

This is the first time a site like this has been discovered in the Netherlands,” the town of Tiel, where the site was discovered, said on its Facebook page.

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Archaeologists discover 4000 year old sanctuary with solar calendar in Tiel
Nicknamed the “Stonehenge of the Netherlands”

23 Jun 2023
by Archaeology Newsroom A A A

A large sanctuary has been discovered in Tiel that is 4000 years old and was dedicated to the sun, just like in the English Stonehenge. The sanctuary consisted of several mounds of earth, one with a solar calendar, wooden posts, cemeteries and a ritual road. People gathered here for sacrifices, funerals, feasts and rituals. The largest hill served as a kind of solar calendar. The shrine has been in use for 800 years. Among the remarkable finds is a glass bead from Mesopotamia (Iraq); evidence that there were already contacts with people in the Ancient Near East.

The discovery of a sanctuary from the early Bronze Age, 4000 years ago, is unique for the Netherlands. The excavations took place in 2017 at Medel, an industrial estate in the Betuwe municipality of Tiel. It is one of the largest archaeological projects in the Netherlands ever. After years of research, archaeologists recently made this spectacular discovery.

The main mound is about 65 ft in diameter and its passages are lined up to serve as a solar calendar. Humans built it at the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age, 4,000 years ago.

The largest hill was also a solar calendar at the same time. Next to the shrine were wooden farmhouses. The shrine must have been an important place where people kept track of special days of the year, performed rituals and buried their dead.

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https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/06/23/archaeologists-discover-4000-year-old-sanctuary-with-solar-calendar-in-tiel/