Every midsummer's night tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and witness the rising sun in alignment with the Heel stone standing outside of the circle. Six months later a ...

Many archaeological discoveries make themselves known to the world by mere accident, and construction workers in Denmark have ...

New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a fertility temple. A detailed study of a partly buried fallen stone at the monument ...

Stonehenge gets some well-deserved attention when it comes to British archeology. Between its age, altar stone’s epic journey, and potential origin as a community building initiative, it has a ...

particularly their alignment with the sun during solstices, has fuelled many theories about its significance. Archaeologists have unearthed numerous artefacts near Stonehenge, providing valuable ...

Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous ... Stone Henge’s heyday would last around 200 years until 1900BC. The stones’ alignment means that on the Summer Solstice the Sun rises directly ...

Danish archeologists have uncovered a circle of wooden piles dating back to about 2,000 BC that they say could have a 'strong connection' to Britain's world-renowned Stonehenge. The 45 neolithic ...

Because, in solar alignment terms, it seems to have been ... Certainly, it is significant that more effort was expended to bring it to Stonehenge than any of the monument’s other stones ...