Ceremonies have been held across the UK and Ireland to mark the winter solstice ... than 5,000 years old drew a number of people keen to mark the solstice.

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

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“Most people would not have ... of the rising sun during the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. A new idea is that Stonehenge was about the winter solstice, or the shortest day ...

Today, hundreds of people - including Druids - still travel to Stonehenge to celebrate the sunrise on the summer solstice, and the sunset on the winter solstice, and to take part in the same kind ...

It is thought that the winter solstice was actually more important to the people who constructed Stonehenge, sometime between 3000 and 2000 BC, than the summer solstice. As a result, scores of ...