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 ...

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

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 ...

Learn about Flagstones, a circular enclosure in southern Britain that is now dated to around 3200 B.C.E The site, which was ...

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) ...

A central stone of the famous Stonehenge monument in southwest England came from 750km away in northeast Scotland, surprised scientists said recently, solving one mystery but raising another ...

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

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

New research shows Flagstones in Dorset dates to 3,200 years BC and sheds new light on the origins of monumental architecture.

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 ...

Archaeological research conducted on the prehistoric Dorset burial site known as Flagstones has revealed that it is the ...