(ALL THAT’S INTERESTING) – To some, the array of 39 stones in Carnac, France, didn’t look like much, and most greeted the decision to have them removed with a shrug. But one local archaeologist has argued that the stones were actually menhirs, prehistoric objects erected by ancient humans thousands of years ago. He has accused Carnac’s mayor of tearing down history.
According to Le Monde, the controversy began with Christian Obeltz, an amateur archaeologist who criticized the mayor’s decision to remove the stones to make way for a hardware store in a blog post on June 2. “The site has been destroyed,” Obeltz lamented a few days later.
He told local newspapers that the mayor had approved the removal of 39 menhirs, ancient structures which could be at least 7,000 years old. Less than two miles away, 3,000 similar stones are clustered in a protected zone.
