Crowds witnessed sunrise during the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere
Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year Saturday at the ancient Stonehenge monument.
There will be less than eight hours of daylight in England on Saturday — but after that, the days get longer until the summer solstice in June. The stone circle, whose giant pillars each took 1,000 people to move, was erected starting about 5,000 years ago by a sun-worshiping Neolithic culture. Its full purpose is still debated: Was it a temple, a solar calculator, a cemetery, or some combination of all three?
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