The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found. The discovery shows the ...

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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's altar stone was quarried over 4,600 years ago, far from the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. But experts now know where it originated.

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 ...

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.

Additionally, Stonehenge is not the biggest megalithic ... dead may have taken place at the site. Ales Stenar (a name which means "Ale's Stones" in Swedish) consists of 59 boulders, weighing ...

Question: On the Stonehenge raising, they used a weighted tip to tilt the main riser stone into the hole. Why not just have the stone dragged up an Earth ramp with wood rails to a pivot point of ...

They were out to make a statement.” Sheep graze among the Stones of Stenness, which may have been a model for Stonehenge. In 1814 a farmer tried to remove the ancient stones so he could more ...

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Rujm el-Hiri, dubbed the “Stonehenge of the East” with a 492 ... completely changing the alignment of the stone structure. “The Rujm el-Hri site has rotated counterclockwise and shifted ...

Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. This world heritage site attracts millions of visitors each year who marvel at this only ...