For centuries, scientists have been trying to determine who built Stonehenge. Today, the leading theory is that several ...

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 ...

Observers in the center of the standing stones can still watch the summer solstice sunrise over the Heel Stone, which stands just outside the main ring of Stonehenge. (Read about pagans' campaign ...

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After this day, the days will lengthen until the summer solstice in June. Stonehenge has long been ... with the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset. The unique stone circle, erected in the ...

Today, hundreds of people - including Druids - still travel to Stonehenge to celebrate the sunrise on the summer solstice, and the sunset on the winter solstice, and to take part in the same kind ...

Before toppling over, Stone 67 would have aligned with the sunrise at the summer solstice and the sunset at the winter solstice. If this is correct, it would suggest that Stonehenge could be a ...

Large crowds of Druids, Pagans and tourists gathered at Stonehenge in England to celebrate the summer solstice by watching the sunrise on the longest day of the year. Photo: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ...

gives the appearance of an endless sunset during the night, before the sun begins to rise again as morning arrives. Britain's biggest celebration of the summer solstice takes place at Stonehenge ...

The Britons responsible for the building of the iconic Stonehenge were probably ... is aligned towards the sunrise on the and sunset on the winter solstice. Large crowds can usually be seen ...

In this diagrammatic reconstruction of Stonehenge, that axis (shown in red) points towards the midwinter solstice sunset (in the bottom left) and towards the midsummer solstice sunrise (in the top ...