The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...
The Carnac megaliths in Brittany, France, are one of Europe’s most mysterious archaeological sites. Extending miles across the Breton countryside, these thousands of standing stones have always ...
Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs were ...
On the Isle of Lewis, the Callanish Stones rise against the Atlantic winds, built around 2900 BCE. Aligned with celestial events and surrounded by legends, the stones once included a chambered tomb ...
A mysterious inscription on an ancient monument dedicated to a "mother goddess" has been deciphered thanks to a researcher's "fortuitous" discovery. The inscription is on the Arslan Kaya ("Lion Rock") ...
For decades, it was believed that Rujm el-Hiri—an ancient stone megalith located on Syria’s Golan Heights plateau consisting of circular walls orbiting a central mound—was used as an astronomical ...
A centuries-old question surrounding Stonehenge has been solved, linking the tall megaliths to a geographic area where they may have come from. The original source of the massive sarsen stones has ...
The enigmatic stone alignments in the Carnac region of Brittany, France, are among the most famous megalithic monuments in Europe – alongside Stonehenge, Menga, and the megalithic temples of Malta.
The iconic Neolithic monument of Stonehenge may have represented an attempt to unify people living in different parts of prehistoric Britain, researchers have proposed in a study. The paper analyzes ...
A 2-tonne megalith in southern Spain was transported to its present location by a hitherto-unknown group of ancient seafarers over 5300 years ago. The Matarrubilla stone is a solid slab of gypsum ...
It is true that a megalithic monument seven millennia old appears when droughts lower the level of the Valdecañas reservoir in Spain's autonomous community of Extremadura. In recent years, the ...