大英博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (大英博物館Instagram)「☀ Today is the summer solstice – the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, also known as midsummer ☀ Stonehenge was carefully designed to align with the solstice, marking the extreme limits of the sun’s movements – the word solstice is derived from the Latin sol (“sun”) and sistere (“to stand still”). The enormous sarsen stones and smaller bluestones were precisely arranged to frame two particular events in the year: the sunrise at summer solstice, and the sunset at winter solstice. 🌄Read more about Stonehenge’s significance to the solstice via the link in our bio. 🔎 Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759-1817), ‘Stone Henge 7 Miles N.W. of Salisbury’. Hand-coloured etching and aquatint on paper, England, 1791. #BritishMuseum #Stonehenge #Solstice」6月21日 21時22分