Chicagohenge happens on the equinoxes, when day and night are about the same length. In 2025, the event will be visible from ...
Every midsummer's night tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and witness the rising sun in alignment with ... Around 2500 BC, the people who put up the large stones ...
For centuries, scientists have been trying to determine who built Stonehenge. Today, the leading theory is that several ...
Ever since serious scientific study of Stonehenge began, archaeologists have noted its alignment with the movements of the sun ... the south coast of Wales and up the rivers Avon and Frome ...
The stones’ alignment means that on the Summer Solstice the Sun ... Stonehenge was used for funerals. They suggest that people carried the dead along the River Avon, and then walked up to ...
The ancient monument of Stonehenge, located in southern England, has fascinated people for thousands of years. Built over 5,000 years ago, its origins remain a mystery—we don’t know exactly who ...
New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a ... craftsmen used tools to remove up to 200,000 cubic centimetres of stone ...
Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.