New research suggests that, as well as being a probable centre for the veneration of the Sun, Stonehenge was also a fertility temple. A detailed study of a partly buried fallen stone at the monument ...

Dr Susan Greaney, a specialist in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, in Exeter’s Department of Archaeology and History, said ...

Astrophotographer Josh Dury spent 3.5 hours photographing the spectacle, and combined 43 images of the meteors, Stonehenge and the Milky Way to create this image. The otherworldly shot was NASA ...

Visitors watch the sunrise at Stonehenge, on June 21, 2024 in Wiltshire, England (Getty Images) Scientists assessing the ...

Professor Terence Meaden, an archaeologist and retired physicist from the University of Oxford, claims that Stonehenge may have been a phallic temple. Professor Meaden claims the central stone ...

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Two other stones make up most of the Stonehenge assemblage. The big sarsen stones, which form the upright posts and lintels in the postcards, the dramatic images of the monument, came from nearby ...

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We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Archaeologists have discovered a Stonehenge-esque circle of timber posts in Denmark, thought to be from the late Neolithic or early ...

From the Stonehenge to the Swiss Alps, the world has its camera trained to the comet’s tails of dust and gas as it makes it close approach. Comet NEOWISE will be the closest to Earth on July 23 ...