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On the Breton coast, thousands of standing stones that have stood for millennia intrigue scientists and visitors alike. A ...
The prehistoric monument Stonehenge was built up to 5,000 years ago on Salisbury Plain in England, ... Stone Age tombs for Irish royalty aren't what they seem, new DNA analysis reveals; ...
Stonehenge’s age called into question after revelation about ancient burial site - Findings could suggest that ‘our current ...
Property owner Dennis Stone and his family have worked to solve the mystery of this rock formation since the 1950s. Believed ...
The new Stonehenge-era galleries will feature at least 500 Neolithic and Bronze-Age objects from Wiltshire, many of them from the once sacred landscape around the monument itself, including a ...
The new theory, detailed in a new book by Parker Pearson, "Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery" (Simon & Schuster, 2012), is one of many hypotheses about the mysterious monument.
Stonehenge’s age called into question after revelation about ancient burial site. Findings could suggest that ‘our current dating of Stonehenge might need revision’ ...
Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious and important monuments to have survived from Stone Age Britain. But scientists now believe that the famous Wiltshire stone circle has a secret 'sister ...
Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.
Stonehenge’s builders also used this type of pottery. In another part of the site, the researchers found “what may be traces of an Iron Age cultivation area,” writes Live Science .
Stonehenge's "altar stone" likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. ... The discovery was based on an analysis of the age of mineral grains within the sandstone rock.
Now, Cumbrian archaeologist Steve Dickinson has shed new light on the monument's possible age, proposing—based on his recent research—that at least part of the stone circle was erected around ...