Among all the legends and lore associated with Stonehenge, the famed Neolithic stone circle on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two things are rarely mentioned: that, as recently as the 20th ...

The findings strongly support the idea that Neolithic builders intentionally transported the stones over vast distances.

If you’re driving along the Columbia River Gorge, you might blink twice at the sight of a towering circle of concrete monoliths rising from the rolling sagebrush. It looks like Stonehenge somehow ...

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LONDON (AP) — It’s that time of year when crowds of pagans, druids, hippies and tourists head to Stonehenge in Britain to celebrate the winter solstice, with the shortest day and the longest night in ...

The world heritage site of Stonehenge is seen in Wiltshire, England on Dec. 17, 2013. The unique stone lying flat at the center of the monument was brought to the site in southern England from near ...

Work at Stonehenge became less invasive. In 1952, Willard Libby—the American chemist and later a Nobel Prize winner—used his new radiocarbon dating technique on a piece of charcoal from a pit within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers in the UK recently discovered that Stonehenge has an older “sister” in Dorchester, so it’s time to rewrite the history ...

The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project used ground-penetrating radars (left) and GPS-guided magnetometers (right) to produce what amounts to a 3-D map of a four-square-mile area. Photo by Henrik ...