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.

This Wonder of the World isn’t done living up to its name. Roughly 5,000 years after making an initial appearance on a patch of English grassland, Stonehenge has plenty of secrets left to spill ...

Snow cloaks the Salisbury Plain in England, dominated by its most celebrated monument. Built 4,500 years ago, the stone structures of Stonehenge form part of a complex late Neolithic landscape.

A restoration worker kept a chunk of Stonehenge more than 60 years ago. He returned it last year and now the stone has solved a long-standing mystery.

The big stones at Stonehenge (sarsens) come from a few tens of miles away, but moving these 30-tonne monsters was no mean feat in Neolithic times. The smaller, exotic bluestones are a different story.

LONDON – LONDON (AP) — Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument ...

Near the center of the roughly 5,000-year-old circular monument known as Stonehenge is a six-ton, rectangular chunk of red sandstone. In Arthurian legend, the so-called Altar Stone was part of the ...

Despite its name (suggested as its use by the architect Inigo Jones in 1620), its function is unknown. ... Our analyses cannot answer how the Altar Stone got to Stonehenge.

Researchers on Wednesday revealed that the long-mysterious “Altar Stone” at the heart of Stonehenge came from faraway Scotland, raising tantalizing new questions about how — and why — a ...

Avebury Stone Circle, located in roughly the same neighborhood as Stonehenge, is in Wiltshire, U.K. The 5,000-year-old stone circle may have been used to calculate lunar or solar alignments.