We can stop crediting glaciers—the people had the power to move those massive stones.

The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...

New research uses tiny mineral clues to show people moved Stonehenge stones, not glaciers, changing how we view ancient engineering.

New research sheds light on one of archaeology’s longest-running debates: how Stonehenge’s massive bluestones reached their ...

The researchers reached this conclusion after searching for the traces of potential ancient glaciers in rivers near Stonehenge. They analyzed tiny grains, including hundreds of zircon crystals, and, ...

For more than a century, archaeologists have argued over how Stonehenge’s colossal stones reached the windswept plain and why ...

Scientists have found compelling new evidence that humans, not glaciers, brought Stonehenge’s bluestones to the site. Using ...

Ask people how Stonehenge was built and you’ll hear stories of sledges, ropes, boats and sheer human determination to haul stones from across Britain to Salisbury Plain, in south-west England. Others ...

When both minerals form, they trap small amounts of radioactive uranium – which, at a known rate, will decay into lead. By measuring the ratios of both elements using a technique called U–Pb dating, ...

Work at Stonehenge became less invasive. In 1952, Willard Libby—the American chemist and later a Nobel Prize winner—used his new radiocarbon dating technique on a piece of charcoal from a pit within ...

There's much more to Stonehenge, it turns out, than meets the eye (or, for that matter, Spinal Tap). Researchers from Birmingham University used high-tech equipment to map 17 ritual monuments in the ...