The findings come from new research. Archaeologists say they now have strong scientific proof that a series of huge pits discovered near Stonehenge were carved by humans more than 4,000 years ago. The ...

Archaeologists have said they believe humans are the architects behind a number of “extraordinary” pits near Stonehenge, in a groundbreaking new study. The true nature of the Durrington pit circle has ...

Shock findings reveal how the mysterious ring got there - and theories as to why EXPERTS have uncovered secrets behind massive mysterious holes found close to Stonehenge. And it could be one of the ...

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 ...

Predating Stonehenge by centuries, the Stones of Stenness form Britain’s earliest henge monument. Built around 3,300 BCE, the circle once stood beside ritual villages and sacred water ditches.

Archaeologists claim a six-ton altar stone at the heart of Stonehenge was dragged more than 500 miles from northern Scotland by Neolithic people — but the evidence tells another story. Geological ...

Archaeological teams in southeastern Austria have made an extraordinary discovery that pushes back our understanding of European monumental architecture by thousands of years. Imagine standing in a ...

Silbury Hill is a prehistoric site located near Stonehenge and Avebury (a Neolithic henge monument) in the southwestern English county of Wiltshire. Silbury Hill has been measured to be 30 m (98.4252 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

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 ...

Among the many mysteries of Stonehenge is a cow jawbone that archaeologists found more than a century ago carefully laid beside the Neolithic monument’s southern entrance. The jawbone has since been ...