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same time, contained the most logical of all answers: mathematics.

    The Stone Agers began by completely flattening the hill on the island of Gavrinis. Then they carted huge quantities of stones of various sizes to the building site and also rolled a few dozen cyclopic megaliths along. ( Image 165 ) Even the floor of the passage grave consists of slabs. The builders must have known from the beginning that they were creating a message for eternity.
    The entrance consists of two vertical stone slabs with a horizontal one on top. ( Image 166 ) This is followed by a gallery, flanked and covered by monoliths, into the interior of the artificial hill. ( Image 167 ) Then there is the “sanctum,” also called the “burial chamber,” although a grave has never been found. This “burial chamber” is a further 2.6 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, and 1.8 meters high. It is formed by six mighty slabs and covered by a gigantic ceiling slab which measures 3.7 by 2.5 meters. In total, 52 megaliths were used to build the actual passage grave, of which half (26) were engraved with strange symbols. The local archeologists assume that these ornaments were carved deep into the stone slabs with small quartz stones. Logically this work would have had to be done while the slabs were still lying on the ground, that is before the passage grave was built. That is the first thing to make us prick up our ears. The people who built this masterpiece cannot have been pottering about in a piecemeal fashion, in whatever way happened to work best at the time, but they must have been working to plan. They knew in advance which engraved slab later had to be placed in which position. The engravings are of innumerable spirals and circles which flow into and over one another, peculiar grooves which look like enlarged fingerprints, snaking lines which often flow over from one monolith to another, and in all this confusion a slab with depictions which are reminiscent of axes or pointed rock implements. ( Images 168 – 172 ) It is an engraved world which, depending on the angle of the light, throws bizarre shadows on the curious patterns on the walls. It is these grooves which speak. They contain the mathematical message, timeless and valid for every generation that can do sums.

Math Exercise in Stone
    The mathematics were discovered by Mr. Gwenc’hlan Le Scouëzec, a Breton and obviously a mathematical genius, although he modestly thinks that the thousands-of-years-old message is quite obvious to everyone. 1
    The count begins where everything has to start in mathematics, with one. Counting from the entrance, the sixth stone on the right is particularly conspicuous. It is smaller than all the others and is engraved with a single “fingerprint”—nothing to the side or on top, only the circles and grooves of a “fingertip.” It is the only stone with just a single symbol. All the others either have no engravings at all or several at once. Does the sixth stone indicate the number 6? Was this intended to signal the system which was to be used for the calculation?
    The 21st stone in the gallery shows a “fingerprint” at the bottom, above which there are three rows, one above the other, with a total of 18 ax-like, vertical engravings. ( Image 173 ) Eighteen is equivalent to 3 × 6. The multiplication of 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 gives 360 or 60 × 6. The 18, the number of “axes,” in turn signals the twentieth part of 360. In our geometric system, this number represents the number of degrees in a full circle. But what is the connection between our system and the past?
    Three, four, five, and six written in sequence read as 3456. This figure is present on the 21st monolith. 3456 divided by 21 gives 164.57. This, in turn, is the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 52.38 meters. So what? Why all the fooling about? The southern azimuth on the day of the summer solstice for the position of Gavrinis is precisely 52 degrees 38 minutes. Do I still need to mention