About 25,000 people have celebrated the summer solstice at Stonehenge - a record breaking crowd. The event is one of the few occasions people can walk next to the stones at the ancient site near ...

Cultures from Stonehenge to Sweden’s Midsommar have marked the solstice ... They break down the year into three-month seasons based on annual temperature cycles. By that calendar, spring starts on ...

He says celebrations at Stonehenge and other stone circles honour the annual cycle, known to pagans as the “turning of the wheel”.

Stonehenge, the famous megalith in Wiltshire, England has puzzled experts for centuries. Even today, it presents more questions than answers.

Long before telescopes and satellites, beneath the sweeping skies of southern England, ancient people gathered enormous stones and shaped them into a monument that continues to baffle and mesmerize: ...

Travel UK & Ireland Travel UK city 'just as beautiful' as Oxford or Chester but with way less tourists Described as a village with a city inside, there's no denying that Salisbury is a pretty ...

And it's also not the only megalithic structure out there; many other ancient cultures have built stone rings that rival Stonehenge. How much do you know about the history of Stonehenge?

Stonehenge breakthrough as scientists may have shed light on major mystery A new study has shed some light regarding Stonehenge's true purpose.

If, as the archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes wrote, every age has ‘the Stonehenge it deserves – or desires’, the experience of the last forty years suggests an uneasy zeitgeist manifesting on Salisbury ...

Located in Wiltshire on the southern edge of Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge seems to have been built in phases between 3100 and 1600 BC.

Why the mighty Stonehenge was built around 5,000 years ago has long been one of the great mysteries, but according to a new study, we may finally have an answer.

Pictured is Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. A study casts new light on the monument's purpose in prehistoric Britain. alzay/iStock/Getty Images Plus Construction of Stonehenge, which consists of ...