Initially, its similarities to Stonehenge had archeologists and historians assuming that Flagstones must be of a similar date ...

These were just the romantic (lurid) names that the early pearl ... from the Orkney Islands to Inverness. Two other stones make up most of the Stonehenge assemblage. The big sarsen stones, which ...

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 ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious and important monuments to have survived from Stone Age Britain. But scientists now believe that the famous Wiltshire stone circle has a secret 'sister ...

When Stonehenge was built (the first construction ... the stone that was brought the farthest distance was the mysterious altar stone. The name—given by famed English architect Inigo Jones ...

Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge.

FILE - A section of Stonehenge, roughly 5,000 years old, on the Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, England, on Aug. 6, 2014. (ANDREW TESTA/The New York Times) ...

As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in ...

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 ...