Stonehenge is located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. garethwiscombe via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Around 5,000 years ago, prehistoric people in what is now southern England began ...

Spaceship landing site? Celestial calculator? A giant fertility symbol? Shrine to Mother Earth? Or just a pile of rocks? It’s been a mystery for 5,000 years, but scientists think they may finally have ...

We walked the Avenue, the ancient route along which the stones were first dragged from the River Avon. For centuries, this was the formal path to the great henge, but now the only hint of its ...

Stonehenge is one of the most iconic prehistoric monuments in the world—and for many travelers, it’s a bucket-list destination. But is it worth visiting? After experiencing it firsthand, I found ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeology International asserts that Stonehenge was built as a symbol of unity between ancient British populations. Earlier this year, researchers discovered ...

Out of all the mysterious structures in the world, the Easter Island Moai and the large slabs of Stonehenge are perhaps the most famous. They achieved their fame for similar reasons -- being too large ...

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 ...

While traveling through England and Wales during the final stretch of America's presidential election, I expected to have some controversial conversations. I got them. But the recurring topic wasn't ...

While traveling through England and Wales during the final stretch of America's presidential election, I expected to have some controversial conversations. I got them. But the recurring topic wasn't ...

A recent archaeological investigation has offered a substantive reassessment of Rujm el-Hiri, a large protohistoric stone complex in the Golan Heights frequently characterized as the "Israeli ...