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

The placement of stones allows for the sun to rise through a stone “window” during summer solstice. The ancient purpose of the altar stone — which lies flat at the heart of Stonehenge ...

The placement of stones allows for the sun to rise through a stone “window” during summer solstice. The ancient purpose of the altar stone — which lies flat at the heart of Stonehenge ...

The altar is a three-tiered square platform built of white marble, its shape symbolizing the ancient notion that the earth is square. There are four stone staircases, one on each side, leading up ...

Stone circles are ancient and mysterious indeed ... The Drombeg Stone Circle in County Cork, also known as Druid’s Altar, is one of the most visited megalithic sites in Ireland.

The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from ... It also means that the ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England, was built with stones from all parts of Great ...

This pagan altar stone is from there. The sandstone altar would have stood in the open air, the depression in the top would have been used for burning sacrifices. In the 1850's the altar was ...

Researchers believe an ancient multi-room structure uncovered ... “features eight rock-hewn rooms containing an altar, a standing stone, an oil press, and a winepress,” the IAA said in a ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve fully excavated eight rooms carved from stone, which were used for ... uncovered what they believe to be a site of ancient ritualistic worship for the first ...

Girls sit for hours on flower altars in this ancient tradition. A young girl does her part to celebrate the festival of La Maya, which marks the arrival of spring in Colmenar Viejo, Spain.