In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Science Direct, a research team led by geomorphologist Professor David ...

It's long seemed like Stonehenge harbors many secrets, and it's not keen on giving them up. But a rare lunar event might finally give us some answers.

The Altar Stone may have once stood vertically at Stonehenge before falling to lie parallel with the ground. This follow-up paper now identifies Stonehenge construction 'as a monument of ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been ... 500 miles or more overland by our Neolithic forebears, before the invention of the wheel," The Washington Post said ...

It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge. The only tools the ... Then another outer circle of small stones was added before the circle of massive stones enclosed the whole thing.

The site was built long before writing was invented ... were built in the 1960s. —Was Stonehenge an ancient calendar? A new study says no. The Carnac stones, located in Brittany in northwestern ...

This research was prompted by the intriguing way in which the stones are placed. The monument’s layout suggests that speech or sound inside Stonehenge would not project outward, meaning those ...

we have examples of these preserved from wet sites in this country that date back to at least a thousand years before Stonehenge, and there are no writings as such on the stones unless you count ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

They base that on a recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones — the unique stone lying flat at the center of the monument, dubbed the “altar stone” — originated in Scotland ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge’s central sandstone slab — long called the “altar stone" — came from much closer Wales. But a study last year by some of ...