Passionate about prehistoric sites? In the United Kingdom, these are the 5 most stunning (and mysterious) sites to visit once ...

Built 1,000 years before the famed English site, the Alignements de Carnac's 3,000 perfectly aligned stones continue to baffle historians.

Located in south-west England, Stonehenge is probably the most famous megalithic ... The stone alignments at Carnac, in ...

Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical ...

The solstice is one of the few occasions each year when visitors are allowed to walk among the stones, which are otherwise fenced off.

The oldest upright stones — called "menhirs" in many parts of Europe, possibly from a Celtic word for "stone" — could be up to 7,500 years old, and the entire complex consists of thousands of ...

With Drought, ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ Emerges Once Again The Dolmen of Guadalperal, a Bronze Age stone monument newly exposed by plummeting water levels in Europe, is now imperiled by tourists.

Opinion: I visited Stonehenge and all I got was an appreciation of man's search for meaning I look at Stonehenge and see a reflection of myself and my toils. I think about the people who ...

Question: How do you know how much the monoliths at Stonehenge weigh? ~Jane Answer: We know how much the monoliths weigh as we can calculate to their overall volume, including the bit that's ...

Like Stonehenge, the Mudumal menhirs are deliberately aligned with the rising and setting sun during the solstices, suggesting a sophisticated understanding of celestial phenomena among ancient ...

There is another menhir given on the Ordnance map, azimuth N. 70° 30′ E., which, with hills 3° high, points out roughly the place of sunrise from the circle in May (April 29).