Seventeen previously unknown monuments have been found around Stonehenge, dramatically altering the prevailing view of the neolithic site as a solitary masterpiece, visited only by Druidic high ...

The heel stone in Stonehenge is undressed or carved unlike most of the other monolith stones. During further excavation, Mr. Pitts found evidence for another filled in hole nearby stone 16.

Archaeologists have unearthed Britain’s third largest stone circle in the Preseli Hills of Wales that they believe was dismantled and rebuilt as Stonehenge in England.

Stonehenge is a massive stone monument located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. It was built roughly 4,000 to 5,000 years ago and was part of a larger sacred landscape.

Stonehenge was built in stages 5,000 years ago on the flat lands of Salisbury Plain approximately 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of London. The unique stone circle was erected in the late ...

While Stonehenge is viewable only from a distance, Britain is dotted with roughly 800 lesser-known stone circles. A favorite is Avebury. Just 19 miles north of Stonehenge, it's 16 times as big.

If you are lucky enough to stand in the center of Stonehenge on the summer solstice, you will see the Sun rise over the Heel Stone, as it has for millennia. The Heel Stone was erected outside the ...

Previous work has found that Stonehenge's smaller "bluestones" came from Wales, about 200 kilometers (160 miles) to the west, and the new study says that they and the sarsens were placed at the ...

Sunrise at Stonehenge draws druids, ... The orange ball crested the northeast horizon behind the Heel Stone, ... The unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2,500 B.C.