Stonehenge is more British than fish and chips, Cornish pasties and queuing in military fashion. However, science has (once again) proved otherwise.
Researchers have found that DNA tests carried out on the workers who built the structure were in fact from Turkey (or what is now Turkey).
So the builders were immigrants, and Twitter had some comments on the matter…
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
And here came the Tweets, have a read, they are brilliant.
Absolutely buzzed to find out that Stonehenge was built by Turks, for Turks. Look forward to reclaiming Somerset’s largest mangal pit with my Turkish brethren and enjoying some tasty dolmades and lamb sis. Everyone welcome except Greeks https://t.co/7Wm5g2IKuu
— Sirin Kale (@thedalstonyears) April 16, 2019
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
Kippers & ethnonationalists will hate the discovery that Stonehenge was basically built by immigrants from Turkeyhttps://t.co/s3wPMhTCnQ
— Mike Hind (@MikeH_PR) April 16, 2019
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
Waiting for Nigel Farage to shit a brick or 12. https://t.co/zwApSl9xB9
— Dr Benjamin Janaway ? (@drjanaway) April 16, 2019
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
— GuyAitchison (@GuyAitchison) April 16, 2019
Typical migrants, coming over here, building our ancient monuments https://t.co/BoF4javaSJ
— Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) April 16, 2019
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
Proof that I was right to warn of the dangers of Turkish immigrants coming over here and taking our jobs. They’ve got form.https://t.co/kRjYHzfO3O
— Not Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) April 16, 2019
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/satire/the-rise-of-the-right-jonathan-pie/17/04/