In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...

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 ...

If this is correct, it would suggest that Stonehenge could be a vast fertility ... making the detailed features difficult to see. 'Because of this, and perhaps Christian prudery, it was never ...

A Stone Age circular monument in England is even older than Stonehenge, raising the possibility that Stonehenge's creators used it as inspiration, a new study finds. When researchers radiocarbon ...

The Britons who built Stonehenge likely "displayed dark features", archaeologists have uncovered in a major breakthrough. Scientists in Italy analysed genomes from 348 individuals, which suggested ...

The site features a central burial pit surrounded ... That would make Flagstones a few hundred years older than Stonehenge—which was built in many stages beginning around 3000 B.C.E ...

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 ...

Stonehenge and Thule. The phallic-shaped stone would have stood erect, as the monument’s key focal feature, for hundreds (probably over two thousand) years - but appears to have eventually ...