Scientists have revealed the Stonehenge builders were “Turkish” – 9+ funny reactions
Stonehenge is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the UK, standing on Salisbury Plain as a testament to the determination and skill of the Neolithic people who placed it there. It’s almost synonymous with Great Britain, at least …it was.
Scientists have carried out DNA tests on the ancestors of those who built the monument, discovering that they originated in what is now Greece and Turkey.
Reports of the discovery implied the builders themselves were migrants.
DNA shows migrants who arrived in Britain around 6,000 years ago constructed the world's most famous prehistoric monument https://t.co/f1gMCDaWSw
— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 16, 2019
Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders https://t.co/Bn25fHKaXT
— BBC Science News (@BBCScienceNews) April 15, 2019
To some people, it must have sounded as though teams of workers were bussed in from Turkey to whistle through their teeth, shake their heads, give an estimate and then take 2,500 years longer than they said they would to finish the job.
How racist are you on a scale from "bit Ukippy" to "mad at ancient Europeans for building stonehenge over 3,000 years ago" pic.twitter.com/oVRHjAbvu5
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 16, 2019
It was only natural that, in the current political climate, a certain take would prove popular.
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More bad news for those who want Britain to be for the original British https://t.co/aKYyu5C5DP
— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) April 16, 2019
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https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1118103180590616577
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Bloody EU, coming over here thousands of years before we existed and taking jobs from hardworking British hengebuilders pic.twitter.com/sUtRc756qk
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 16, 2019
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Typical migrants, coming over here, building our ancient monuments https://t.co/BoF4javaSJ
— Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) April 16, 2019
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Bloody foreigners coming over here with their iconic neolithic monuments and fancy "farm" food. Give me mud huts and foraging any day. https://t.co/LYZLEDgXXF#stonehenge
— Guy Aitchison (@GuyAitchison) April 16, 2019
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Waiting for Nigel Farage to shit a brick or 12. https://t.co/zwApSl9xB9
— Dr Janaway (@drjanaway) April 16, 2019
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Typical. Immigrants may have built Stonehenge, but it just proves they knew nothing about England, or they wouldn’t have put it so close to the A303, where the traffic is always terrible.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) April 16, 2019
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https://twitter.com/MikeH_PR/status/1118024273149534209
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Farage furious as the Neolithic builders of Stonehenge originated from Turkey, stealing British jobs.
Archeologists first became suspicious in the 1970s when analysis of drinking vessels unearthed revealed less than three sugars has been used. https://t.co/HN7zNXBvfn
— Michael🌱 Ⓥ #FBPE.🇺🇦 (@changed_gear) April 16, 2019
Comedian, Tiernan Douieb, saw a certain logic in the findings.
Of course Stonehenge was built by immigrants to Britain, otherwise today it'd still just be a cordoned off area with a few stone traffic cones and a carved in slate promise that work would be finished by next century.
— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) April 16, 2019
Writer and editor Sirin Kale saw an opportunity.
https://twitter.com/thedalstonyears/status/1118140933076336640
And creative tweeter, Happy Toast, saw something very positive.
I do love science. The UK is a celebration of immigration and people power and it's most famous landmark is a testament to that: https://t.co/0mek291iY6
— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) April 16, 2019
The Brexit Party won’t like any of that.