Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the ...

A Dorset burial site has been revealed as Britain’s oldest known circular enclosure, pushing back previous estimates by 200 years. The Flagstones monument, near Dorchester, has been redated to ...

Thousands of druids, pagans and New Age revelers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on Tuesday, the longest day of the northern hemisphere year. Wiltshire Police said about 6,000 people ...

A research team has unraveled the mysterious origins of a "unique" stone that forms a key part of Stonehenge, the world-renowned prehistoric monument in southwest England, a study reports. The study, ...

A prehistoric Stone circle in England may have been erected some 700 years before the origin of the iconic Stonehenge monument, an archaeologist has proposed. The Castlerigg stone circle, located in ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Stonehenge's origin story has baffled archaeologists for centuries. The mysterious rock arrangement on England's Salisbury Plain features two ...

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Archaeologists have discovered a vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds, thought to be up to 4,400 years old, ahead of a building development less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Stonehenge. The ...

Robert Phillips represented a drilling company back in 1958 that was restoring Stonehenge. While restoring the monuments, Phillips snagged a cylindrical core from of the pillars, Stone 58, and in the ...

In 1801, archaeologists discovered an earthen mound near Stonehenge that contained the remains of two individuals, as well as myriad objects buried alongside them. Now, more than 200 years later, ...

A Swedish Stonehenge? Stone Age Tomb May Predate English Site A 5,500-year-old tomb possibly belonging to a Stone Age chieftain has been unearthed at a megalithic monument in the shape of a ship ...