Stonehenge is a mysterious prehistoric monument in England, known for its massive stone circles. It was built around 5,000 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a new stone circle near Stonehenge that lends credence to the theory that the famous prehistoric monument in Britain was part of a funeral complex. University of Bristol ...

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Stonehenge is how the heavy boulders got there. While some of the rocks came from Wales, one has even been traced to a quarry in Scotland. Recent research ...

Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, ...

Stonehenge at sunset. Construction of the iconic stone circle began around 3000 B.C.E. and continued in several phases. Captain Skyhigh via Getty Images About 5,000 years ago, Neolithic inhabitants of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists dissecting a Neolithic cow molar may have unlocked the mystery of its role in Stonehenge’s creation. By slicing into the tooth, ...

The mystery deepens when we discover that ancient Greek temples, built thousands of miles away and centuries later, encoded the same geodetic principles—their measurements directly derived from the ...