The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...
Scientists have found compelling new evidence that humans, not glaciers, brought Stonehenge’s bluestones to the site. Using ...
New research uses tiny mineral clues to show people moved Stonehenge stones, not glaciers, changing how we view ancient engineering.
It now seems certain that the stones were transported by people ...
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 ...
After analysing over 700 zircon and apatite grains they found that glaciers likely didn’t extend to parts of England as far ...
Learn more about the new research that backs up the theory that the bluestones of Stonehenge were carried or dragged by ...
When both minerals form, they trap small amounts of radioactive uranium – which, at a known rate, will decay into lead. By ...
A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and ...
A new study challenges the long-held glacial transport theory, which suggested that Stonehenge's stones were naturally moved ...
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 ...