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Mysteries of Stonehenge Revealed

Stonehenge, which is located at Wiltshire, United Kingdom, is a pre historic monument. It is composed of earth works that surround large standing stones in circular setting.

The monument is believed to be built back in 2500 B.C by the Archeologists. According to many theories, the date of the erection is still unknown where some consider it to be in 2200 B.C. and other saying it to be around 3000 B.C. But till date no such strong evidence shows the exact date of the monument being built. Since a long time there have been many questions regarding the reasons behind building of such a monument as well as location of the quarry of the stones.

But today archaeologists have been successful in finding the spot of the quarry of the huge stones. The location has been told to be as in Wales and it has been said that the extraction of the stones was done back in 2500 B.C. The enclosure which is about 1 acre in size is found on the Carn Menyn Mountain in the Preseli Hills. The discovery of the place is considered to have answered one of the mysteries of the world that attracted so many archeologists. The discovery was made after it was made sure that the origin of the blue stones can only be from one place only. Moreover the reason behind using such stones is considered to be the stones to be holy. Now with the help of chemical reactions as well as more tests, the exact spot of each stone would be found. The great discovery is made a year after the remains of band of brother was found. It is believed that they were responsible for the transportation of the blue stones. The discovery was carried by Prof Darvill who was researching on the mystery for the past 10 years.

UK Spy Loses Secret Documents

One of Britain’s top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday.

The Cabinet Office, the central government department that supports the work of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, acknowledged the incident and said it had called in a police investigation.

“The documents were secret. They were in the possession of a senior intelligence official who works in the Cabinet Office. They were lost on a train,” a Cabinet Office spokesman said.

“They were retrieved by a member of the public who handed them to the BBC,” he said. “When the official realized what had happened, he reported it immediately to the Cabinet Office. We called the police in and they launched an investigation.”

A police spokeswoman confirmed that the counter-terrorism command of London’s police force was carrying out the probe.

The Cabinet Office declined to comment on the contents of the missing file. But the BBC said they contained two reports, one on Iraq’s security forces and one on al Qaeda.

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner at one point waved what he said were the documents on air. In a subsequent report he said that he had turned them over to police officers.

He said the passenger who found the documents had given them to a local BBC office, which phoned him to have a look.

“As soon as I saw ‘UK Top Secret’, I thought: ‘Wow. This is important’,” he said. “It was marked top secret. It reveals what the government knows about al Qaeda’s capabilities, and more importantly, its vulnerabilities.”

Government sources suggested that the leak was embarrassing but would not actually hurt Britain’s security.

But the news will hurt Brown, who has already been stung by accusations of lax security after a civil servant lost computer disks containing the names, addresses and bank details of 25 million people in the mail last year.

In January the Ministry of Defence reported it had lost a laptop containing personal data on 600,000 recruits.

Brown, whose popularity has plunged since he took over from Tony Blair last year, is promoting plans to roll out a national identity card system, and opponents of the measure often cite the government’s poor record of keeping data secure.

The prime minister won a narrow victory in parliament on Wednesday to extend the period that terrorism suspects can be held without charge.