Thousands of years ago, ancient Britons built Stonehenge, but its true purpose has puzzled researchers for centuries. Could it have been a burial ground? A way to observe the night sky? Or maybe used ...

Stonehenge is made of 100 massive upright stones. It’s a top example of ancient engineering, built between 3000 and 1520 B.C.

Question: Is it possible that the purpose of stonehenge was a sort of gateway to the heavens, what these early thought of as the transcendental realm? It seemed to me that the clustering of the ...

I look at Stonehenge and see a reflection of myself and my toils. I think about the people who constructed it and how they believed in purpose. I agree with them. I give Stonehenge five stars.

Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge ...

Two environmental activists have been charged over the spraying of orange paint powder at the Stonehenge monuments in ...

Summer Solstice at Stonehenge is a very popular event that ... and—if so—how this was achieved and what might have been its purpose.” English Heritage is inviting the public to be involved ...

Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and not Welsh origins, researchers say. The finding suggests that Late Neolithic ...

Darvill acknowledged that it would be wrong to seek one unifying explanation for Stonehenge. “It was a long-lived structure that changed purpose and meaning over time, starting as an enclosed ...