Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive series of Neolithic-era pits very close to the Stonehenge site in southern England. As with Stonehenge itself its purpose remains a mystery, but the mere ...

CRAIG CHILDS is the author, most recently, of "House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest." ARCHEOLOGISTS recently discovered what appears to be the other half of ...

A huge ring of 4,500-year-old pits discovered about two miles from Stonehenge were made by humans, archaeologists have confirmed. Twenty times bigger than Stonehenge—making it the largest prehistoric ...

The iconic Neolithic monument of Stonehenge may have represented an attempt to unify people living in different parts of prehistoric Britain, researchers have proposed in a study. The paper analyzes ...

Lying on the ground near the center of Stonehenge, partially covered by two huge slabs that appear to have toppled over, is a 16-foot-long block of gray-green sandstone. In 1620, noted landscape ...

We may not know exactly how or why Stonehenge was built, but new research affords a glimpse of the people who erected England’s iconic stone monument some 5,000 years ago. The study, which examined ...