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Sophisticated Stonehenge

hile the world-famous stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire remains, in many ways, a mystery, a new exhibition at the British Museum, (17 Feb to 17 July), will use the facts to present prehistoric Britain as a tangible place of big ideas, commerce and travel. The exhibition will take visitors back to around 3,000–2,500 BC, when the circle was created, and bring together hundreds of objects from across the UK and Europe, including the 3,600-year-old Nebra Sky Disc, the oldest surviving

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