The difference between an equinox and a solstice is based on Earth’s tilt, affecting daylight length and the changing of ...

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New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a fertility temple. A detailed study of a partly buried fallen stone at the monument ...

The gathering of individuals at the sacred site of Stonehenge in England to watch the sunrise during solstice events such as the summer and winter solstice. Pagans, druids and people simply ...

Before toppling over, Stone 67 would have aligned with the sunrise at the summer solstice and the sunset at the winter solstice. If this is correct, it would suggest that Stonehenge could be a ...

As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in ...

Today, hundreds of people - including Druids - still travel to Stonehenge to celebrate the sunrise on the summer solstice, and the sunset on the winter solstice, and to take part in the same kind ...

Dr Susan Greaney, a specialist in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, in Exeter’s Department of Archaeology and History, said ...

Initially, its similarities to Stonehenge had archeologists and historians assuming that Flagstones must be of a similar date ...

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