While most visitors to Stonehenge admire the structure from ... be on to pin down where exactly in the north-east of Scotland the Altar Stone came from,” said Co-author Professor Richard Bevins ...

Kirkland and his fellow researchers examined three ways the altar stone could have traveled from Scotland to Stonehenge. The first is that it was carried by glacial ice movement during the Ice Age ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a fertility ...

A right-to-roam row over “Scotland’s Stonehenge” has broken out after it emerged that visitors to the ancient stone circle ...

FILE - A section of Stonehenge, roughly 5,000 years old, on the Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, England, on Aug. 6, 2014. (ANDREW TESTA/The New York Times) ...

Many archaeological discoveries make themselves known to the world by mere accident, and construction workers in Denmark have ...

They had Stone Age technology ... their ultimate expression at Stonehenge. Why Orkney of all places? How did this scatter of islands off the northern tip of Scotland come to be such a ...

Just under 1,000 stone circles have been discovered ... in architecture and material culture between the Stonehenge area and northern Scotland now make more sense. "It helped to solve the ...

It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge. The only tools the builders had were made of stone, wood and rope! Only a few stones are left standing today. The first task was to cut the boulders into ...

A detailed study of a partly buried fallen stone at the monument ... all the way from northern Scotland. open image in gallery This reconstruction, of what Stonehenge would have looked like ...