Stonehenge may have had a second purpose beyond its well-documented astronomical uses. A new study claims that the monument may have been built in part to unify neighboring people groups in and ...

Archaeologists have compared it to similar circular sites, all with pits and cremations, and a marked absence of other ...

Stonehenge was likely built as a project to unify ancient ... suggests that the stone circle may have had a political as well as a religious purpose – as a monument of unification for the peoples of ...

Question: Is it possible that the purpose of stonehenge was a sort of gateway to the heavens, what these early thought of as the transcendental realm? It seemed to me that the clustering of the ...

(Program not available for streaming.) Dated to the late Stone Age, Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Every year, a million visitors are drawn to England to ...

Begun about 3000 B.C., Stonehenge was built in stages over 1,400 years. The structure, whose purpose remains a mystery, started out as a huge earthen ditch with wooden posts and walls. The ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Stonehenge gets some well-deserved attention when it comes to British archeology. Between its age, altar stone’s epic journey ...

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 ...

Stonehenge was likely built as a project to ... suggests that the stone circle may have had a political as well as a religious purpose – as a monument of unification for the peoples of Britain ...