Every so often, we make a discovery that reshapes our entire understanding of the world around us. Whether it’s scientists making breakthroughs at the LHC, or paleontologists unearthing the secrets of ...
An early Neolithic timber hall has been found beneath a school in Scotland, with archaeologists believing it could have been a ceremonial venue for Scotland’s first farming communities. The remains of ...
Sometime in the 6th millennium B.C.E., tribes that had for centuries roamed the eastern foothills of the Alps began abandoning hunting and gathering. In place of a nomadic lifestyle, these tribes ...
Inside the quest for the origin of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone - After Orkney was ruled out as the origin for Stonehenge’s Altar ...
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The Stonehenge of Sweden

You’re familiar with Stonehenge, yes? The circular pile of rocks located in Wiltshire, England? They showed up sometime ...
The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...
The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago possessed a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry, geology and architectural ...
Archaeologists say they have found scientific proof that humans created a ring of deep pits near Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago. The pits at ...
DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...