After Orkney was ruled out as the origin for Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, geologists now have their eyes on north eastern ...

STONEHENGE, England — The dramatic images show men struggling to haul the 25-ton stone pillars of Stonehenge into place, creating the distinctive outline of the 4,000-year-old stone circle. But these ...

The ancient monument was built to align with the movement of the sun on the solstices — key dates in the calendar for ancient farmers.

In the darkness of the shortest day of 2025, thousands of pilgrims converged in lamplight upon Stonehenge, one of Britain’s ...

In the summer of 2019, I walked up a hillside in west Wales with Richard Bevins, a researcher who specializes in petrology, the study of the origins, compositions, and structures of rocks. We climbed ...

After centuries of puzzling over the meaning of Stonehenge, laser-equipped researchers have concluded that the prehistoric monument was built to show off the solstices. Apart from revealing 71 new ...

"Renowned Stonehenge experts Tim Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright excavated at the henge in 2008 and concluded the layer was ...

It's hard to believe that the Stonehenge World Heritage Site — a popular tourist destination in densely populated southern England, and home to one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the ...

At least some of the people who were buried at Stonehenge died and were cremated far from the site — probably in west Wales about 120 miles away, according to a new study. The finding, published ...

It's now 08:12 GMT and the Sun is rising at Stonehenge. Thousands of people are at the monument to celebrate the winter solstice - we'll bring you more shortly. The winter solstice is the darkest, ...