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 ...

Long before telescopes and satellites, beneath the sweeping skies of southern England, ancient people gathered enormous ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

"The 'sister' monument to Flagstones is Stonehenge, whose first phase is almost identical, but it dates to around 2900 BC. Could Stonehenge have been a copy of Flagstones? Or do these findings suggest ...

Science Direct Stonehenge remains profoundly mysterious. We still aren’t certain who built it, or why they aligned its geometry with the summer solstice, or brought the smaller stones from 180 ...

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 ...

That timeline, if proven accurate, would date it thousands of years earlier than Egypt’s pyramids or England’s Stonehenge — and possibly make it the oldest known structure ever built by humans.

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 ...

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 ...