An out of this world idea and an astronomical price for historic notes. 'Red Planet has got one just like it'

Express Reporter

There's some corner of England for ever Mars. Poetical misquotation or not, that is the theory of mathematician David Percy.

He reckons the prehistoric stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire, was built by homesick Martians.

How come? It has exactly the same geometry as a giant crater in Cydonia, a region of Mars, says Mr Percy. He should know because he used to work for the American Mars Mission, a research body independent of NASA.

For him it can only mean one thing - that men from the Red Planet visited Wiltshire in the dim past and built a replica of a monument they had constructed back home.

The mathematical fit between the two sides is so perfect, he claims, that the chances of it being a coincidence are one in 100 trillion. He has written about his findings in a book, Two Thirds, published by Salisbury-based Mary Bennett.

But according to Mr Percy the connections between Earth and Mars do not stop with Avebury.

Enhanced images of photographs of the surface of Mars taken by NASA's Viking space craft in the 1970s apparently show evidence of a mile and half long pyramid representation of a face.

Local archaeologist Peter Oakley says with enthusiasm: "NASA says the face is just a strange quirk of erosion. But you can see teeth in the mouth, and a pupil in the eye socket."

He also says that the similarities between Avebury circle and it's twin structure are to striking to be ignored.

"There is a pyramid structure on the edge of the crater that fits exactly with an earthen mound in Avebury. I was very sceptical when I started researching it, but now I'm convinced," he said.

But the theory cuts no ice with English Heritage chief archaeologist Geoff Wainwright.

"Avebury was a temple built by the first race of farmers to come to England," he says. "The chieftains were carving out territories, and Avebury was the centre of one."

Ms Bennett is not deterred though. "It shows that the same mathematical coding and equation were being used on Earth as on Mars," she says.

The codes could only be cracked, she explained, with the aid of "hyperdimensional maths." But when they were, it would help us to visit other planets in the same way as the Martians had apparently visited ours.

Or, to put it another way, there would be no Mars bars to space. flight.

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