The difference between an equinox and a solstice is based on Earth’s tilt, affecting daylight length and the changing of ...
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 ...
Dr Susan Greaney, a specialist in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, in Exeter’s Department of Archaeology and History, said ...
Now, one scientist has proposed a very surprising new theory. Professor Terence Meaden, an archaeologist and retired physicist from the University of Oxford, claims that Stonehenge may have been a ...
A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Ferrara in Italy suggests that the majority of Europeans living 5,000 years ago, including those who built Stonehenge, may have had dark ...
For those of us who approach things by the Goldilocks Principle (not too little, not too much), spring equinox is ...
It was an honour to be asked to join the London order's Spring Equinox ceremony scattering seeds in the City, but sadly the ...
With Stonehenge, just outside the town of Glastonbury ... is aligned towards the sunrise on the and sunset on the winter solstice. Large crowds can usually be seen at the monument during ...
Discover the significance of the spring equinox, the balance of day and night, and how cultures around the world celebrate ...