New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a fertility ...

Ancient Britons who built Stonehenge had dark skin, scientists reveal - Darker skin tones may have been the norm in Europe ...

While traveling through England and Wales during the final stretch of America's presidential election, I expected to have some controversial conversations. I got them. But the recurring topic wasn ...

How did they do it thousands of years ago? An ancient gravesite near Stonehenge revealed an important man buried with beautifully crafted gold ornaments - probably the only such gold objects in ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Archaeologists have discovered a Stonehenge-esque circle of timber posts in Denmark, thought to be from the late Neolithic or early ...

But that's what Salisbury man Cecil Chubb decided on a whim when he found himself at Messrs Knight, Franck and Rutley's auction in the Palace Theatre on this day in 1915. Stonehenge had been in ...

Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge ...

Stonehenge is also surrounded by a number of Bronze Age barrows - special man-made mounds where people have been buried. Archaeologists have found these people to be buried with an astonishing ...

years - but appears to have eventually been knocked over by some sort of natural or man-made catastrophe. For, at an as yet unknown stage in Stonehenge’s history, two huge stones (one weighing ...