After Orkney was ruled out as the origin for Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, geologists now have their eyes on north eastern ...

Stonehenge has long been a mystery to archeologists attempting to divine why ancient peoples would have built such a ...

BBC's Sophie Parker has been reporting from Stonehenge this morning, on the day of the winter solstice. Here are her ...

Stonehenge, a Neolithic wonder in southern England, has vexed historians and archaeologists for centuries with its many mysteries: How was it built? What purpose did it serve? Where did its towering ...

In the darkness of the shortest day of 2025, thousands of pilgrims converged in lamplight upon Stonehenge, one of Britain’s ...

This Wonder of the World isn’t done living up to its name. Roughly 5,000 years after making an initial appearance on a patch of English grassland, Stonehenge has plenty of secrets left to spill, ...

In the summer of 2019, I walked up a hillside in west Wales with Richard Bevins, a researcher who specializes in petrology, the study of the origins, compositions, and structures of rocks. We climbed ...

Stonehenge is widely recognized for its intentional solar alignments with the Heel stone during midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, a design choice supported by archaeological evidence. A ...

Stonehenge, the famed Neolithic rings of stones, remains as mysterious as ever—and now archaeologists have found an even bigger prehistoric ring of 16-foot-deep, 33-foot-wide shafts just two miles ...

People head to Stonehenge to celebrate the Summer Solstice on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Wiltshire, England. People gather during sunrise as they take part in the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge in ...