T here are countless megalithic sites around the world, but while Stonehenge may be the most famous, know this: it is not the ...

I think this is as their makers intended. But one collection of stone circles stands apart. In northeastern Scotland, stone circles are related not to the Sun, but to the Moon. And they all ...

The influx of arrivals, mainly from Germany and the Netherlands, had completely displaced existing Britons by the time the ...

the Ring of Brodgar—Scotland’s biggest stone circle. What snagged her attention was the realization that she could no longer hear the tractor. It had been passing up and down, plowing a field ...

Similarities between stone circles in Scotland and Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire on the southern edge of England’s Salisbury Plain, add to a growing collection of clues showing there was ...

Given that Stonehenge and the other “recumbent stone circles” are only located in a specific region of Scotland, archeologists hypothesize that building the structures may have served as major ...

A new study by researchers at UCL and Aberystwyth University have discovered Stonehenge’s true purpose. The researchers have ...

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Visitors watch the sunrise at Stonehenge, on June 21, 2024 in Wiltshire, England (Getty Images) Scientists assessing the similarities between ancient stone circles in Scotland and Stonehenge in ...

It shows that this site on Salisbury Plain was important to the people not just living nearby, but across Britain.’ ...