Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, a 5 m long sandstone slab located in the middle of the Neolithic monument, continues to evade easy answers about its origins. The latest scientific evidence points toward ...

Archaeologists in Britain have discovered the site of a former stone circle in west Wales, which they believe was taken apart and later rebuilt as Stonehenge. New research published in Antiquity ...

Researchers are one step closer to solving the mystery of Stonehenge's origins. LONDON -- For thousands of years, Stonehenge has stood on the downlands of what is now southern England. With its ...

LONDON -- The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing ...

Stonehenge may have served as a calendar to keep track of the yearly movements of the sun, suggesting a prehistoric link to sun worship in the eastern Mediterranean, according to new research. A study ...

An altar stone that lies within the heart of Stonehenge in Southern England has turned out to be from the faraway hinterlands of Scotland, a surprising find that suggests it’s far older than any other ...

In 1923, famed British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas published a seminal study on Stonehenge, claiming to have found the precise spots where prehistoric people had quarried the stones. There was just ...

A team of geoscientists and archaeologists found hundreds of large prehistoric pits while conducting a geophysical survey of the land around Stonehenge, a world heritage site in southwestern England.