At more than 11,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe consists of a series of megalithic enclosures that were built close together. The ...

from the UCL Institute of Archaeology, and Professor Richard Bevins, of Aberystwyth University, said in the new research paper. “The Altar Stone’s incorporation into Stonehenge as an attempt ...

Solid as a rock… There are certain places in the world that hold a powerful grip over the collective imagination. Places ...

Stonehenge was built to unify ancient Britons during a “legitimation crisis” caused by the migration of people from mainland Europe, researchers have suggested.

Stonehenge may have had a second purpose beyond its well-documented astronomical uses. A new study claims that the monument may have been built in part to unify neighboring people groups in and ...

One circle has been compared to Stonehenge, while the second may have served as a gateway to an arc of stone circles in Dartmoor National Park. Artist and archaeologist Alan Endacott discovered ...

Stonehenge was a failed experiment in "unifying" early Briton communities, new research has suggested. Archaeologists have suggested that the Neolithic stone circle was built to "unify" early ...

Stonehenge was likely built as a project to ... The research, published on Thursday in the journal Archaeology International, builds on recent findings that the giant altar stone at the heart ...