Around 4,500 years ago, the famous silhouette of Stonehenge would have looked very different. Writer and archaeologist Mike Pitts digs up clues to the mystery of the circle's long-lost stones.

The distinctive silhouette of Stonehenge in the flat landscape of Salisbury plain in southwest England is instantly and iconically familiar. However, the 4,500-year-old monument and the world it ...

The excavation around Stonehenge's Bluestone Number 34 isn't terribly impressive at first glance, or even second. It's only a squared-off pit a couple yards wide by three or four yards long, and ...

The stone in question—the so-called Altar Stone—isn’t one of the trilithons, the five 29 to 32 feet tall, 45-ton boulders that make up the bulk of Stonehenge’s imposing silhouette.

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Researchers discovered a ring of at least 20 "shafts" more than 32 feet in diameter and 16 feet deep, near Stonehenge.

Around 4,500 years ago, the famous silhouette of Stonehenge would have looked very different. Writer and archaeologist Mike Pitts digs up clues to the mystery of the circle's long-lost stones.