Silbury Hill lies close to the stone circles of Avebury and a few miles from Stonehenge. Archaeologists estimate that it would have taken 700 men working for 10 years to build out of soil and chalk.

Silbury Hill mystery soon to be resolved Archaeologists could finally be on the brink of solving a puzzle that dates back more than 4,000 years.

Silbury Hill, a 4,400-year-old, 130-foot-high mound of chalk and dirt about 80 miles west of London, has finally yielded its ancient secrets. It is not the tomb of the long-forgotten King Sil nor the ...

We are about to enter some rather iffy tunnels dug into Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, a 4,400-year-old man-made pyramid constructed entirely from chalk.

The Normans packed layers of stone and earth together for their Motte and Baileys, and the layers of earth and chalk of Silbury hill mirror this technique. Couldn't it be that Silbury is one of ...

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The hill comprises mainly chalk excavated from the surrounding area, and the mound stands 130 feet high. It is thought that Silbury Hill was probably completed by about 2350 BC but why and how it ...

Geophysical and ground surveys of Silbury Hill, a 120 ft high chalk mound formed in a Wiltshire valley around 4,500 years ago, suggest that it was built in a spiral fashion, and not made from a ...

Engineers have reopened a tunnel that goes deep inside the ancient monument of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. The tunnel, dug in 1968, was the last of many made over the centuries by archaeologists ...

It is composed mainly of chalk and clay taken from the surrounding area, and stands at 40 metres, or 131 feet high, covering a sizeable five acres. Between 2400 and 2300 BC, Silbury Hill was ...