The Guardian carried a piece on Arctic Henge in Iceland recently. This kind of ersatz history actually has a long pedigree going back into the nineteeneth century and before when the Druidical movement (an essentially entirely artificial modern religion started building "henges" around Wales. It is surely a curious thing that human beings feel constrained to create artificial histories.
At the same time, we also apparently want to edit to our actual history to remove aspects such as Cecil Rhodes who are no longer in favour.
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