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 ...

Ever since serious scientific study of Stonehenge began ... the sun rises behind the 'Heel Stone' in the northeastern part of the horizon, framing the rising sun as it shines its first rays ...

If one were to draw an imaginary straight line from the center of Stonehenge and through the heel stone, is it possible that this line would intersect with the Bosporous ("Cow crossing") or ...

In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...

Initially, its similarities to Stonehenge had archeologists and historians assuming that Flagstones must be of a similar date ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

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 ...

FILE - A section of Stonehenge, roughly 5,000 years old, on the Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, England, on Aug. 6, 2014. (ANDREW TESTA/The New York Times) ...

Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Isn’t From Wales … What? Made of at least 45 wooden posts placed two meters (6.5 feet) apart, the entire structure has a diameter of 30 meters (about 98 feet ...