On the Salisbury Plain in southern England, a ring of enormous stones has stood for nearly five thousand years, older than the pyramids at Giza, older than writing itself. This episode wanders among the weathered sarsens and bluestones of Stonehenge, lingering first in the mystery that still clings to the place — the silence, the scale, the unanswered why — before drifting gently through what archaeology, geology, and careful science have pieced together about who raised these stones, how they moved them across impossible distances, and what the monument may have meant to the people who built it so long ago.

This episode includes AI-generated content.