It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices. Now, research has identified how it may have worked.

Stonehenge is not just a solar calendar; it’s also a lunar observatory. The monument includes several alignments that track the complicated cycles of the moon.

The city “henges” are named after the spectacular sun alignment that occurs at the famed Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. There, a dramatic sun alignment occurs when the massive sandstone ...

As the sun rose on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a crowd erupted in cheers at Stonehenge where the ...

“Stonehenge is built on a solstice alignment, a solar alignment. What happens is that at what we call Midsummer, the Sun rises in the northeastern horizon, ...

All in all, the alleged "Neolithic" solar-precise Stonehenge calendar is shown to be a purely modern construct whose archaeoastronomical and calendrical bases are flawed.

But Stonehenge includes other elements, such as 56 pits arranged in a circle, an earthwork bank and ditch, and other smaller features such as the four station stones.

There is an abundance of archaeological evidence that indicates solar alignment was part of the architectural design of Stonehenge, but the monument’s ancient connection to the skies may run even ...

Stonehenge is famous for its alignment with the sun, which is why visitors flock to the ancient site at the start of summer.. But 5,000 years ago, the ancient Wiltshire monument may also have been ...

All in all, the alleged “Neolithic” solar-precise Stonehenge calendar is shown to be a purely modern construct whose archaeoastronomical and calendrical bases are flawed.

Similar to the solar movements, the position of moonrise and moonset changes due to the inclination of the Moon’s orbit with respect to the Earth. But it is not an annual thing. It takes 18.6 ...