Perhaps no landmark has left scientists as perplexed as Stonehenge, the ancient ring of massive stones in Salisbury Plain, England. The first detailed archaeological survey of Stonehenge happened in ...

A team of researchers has used mineral dating of river sands around Salisbury Plain to challenge the long-standing idea that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Follett returns with an epic on building Stonehenge in 2500 BCE. (photo credit: Chedko. Via Shutterstock) After analysing over ...

Aberystwyth University-led research has shared new findings clarifying that the enigmatic "Newall boulder" from Stonehenge was transported by Neolithic people, not by glacial transport, from Craig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stonehenge was constructed around 5,000 years ago. (alzay/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Somber, still, and timeworn, Stonehenge looms ...

Stonehenge is one of the most iconic archaeological sites in the world, but despite its celebrity status, we still don’t know exactly who built the stone monument, what it was for, and how exactly all ...

During the solstices, thousands gather at Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England to celebrate the monument's astronomical alignment. The focal point of these festivities is the Altar Stone—the ...

For three nights only, the great landmark and treasure of world civilisation becomes the magisterially named Stonehenge Fire Garden, centrepiece of Salisbury Arts Festival, loaned to London 2012 ...

British archaeologists have discovered an ancient wooden structure five km from Stonehenge, which, in their opinion, could serve as a prototype of the famous megalith. This was reported by the APNews ...

The unsolved mystery of how altar stone of Stonehenge finally arrived in Wiltshire could finally be partly explained by new research. The monolith is believed to have originated in the Orcadian Basin ...