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 ...

Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious and important monuments to have survived from Stone Age Britain. But scientists now believe that the famous Wiltshire stone circle has a secret 'sister ...

Chicagoans can get a glimpse of the sun perfectly aligning with Chicago's east-west streets during sunrise and sunset.

Ever since serious scientific study of Stonehenge began ... been spectacularly silhouetted against the light and blocked the view for visitors approaching on the solar axis.

The high-profile exhibition of large-scale art installations across the Coachella Valley has launched with fewer works this ...

A Stone Age circular monument in England is even older than Stonehenge, raising the possibility that Stonehenge's creators used it as inspiration, a new study finds. When researchers radiocarbon ...

Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

Progress has been made on the major construction plans at Stonehenge, after Wiltshire Council approved further steps in the new learning centre project. In 2024, the local authority gave the go-ahead ...

In this diagrammatic reconstruction of Stonehenge, that axis (shown in red ... it would have blocked any view of the winter-solstice sunset for observers approaching along that probably sacred ...

The Flagstones monument in Dorset has been redated to about 3,200 years BC, about two centuries earlier than previously thought. The research, conducted by archaeologists at the University of Exeter, ...

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