Stonehenge has long been described as ceremonial, astronomical — even mystical. But what if it was functional? A new ...

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Circle of DaysKen Follet, Quercus, £10.99FOR years Ken Follet has been a master of both contemporary and historical fiction. His latest novel, Circle of Days, is an attempt at what is best be ...

Around 2400 BC, the people who had built Stonehenge and other massive Neolithic monuments effectively vanished. Previous ancient DNA studies showed that they were replaced by newcomers with Steppe ...

Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the origins of the Bell Beaker people who migrated to Britain and replaced all of the Neolithic ...

Ancient DNA reveals hunter-gatherers in north-western Europe, including the Netherlands and Belgium, adopted farming slowly, influenced by ...

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...

We can stop crediting glaciers—the people had the power to move those massive stones.

After analysing over 700 zircon and apatite grains they found that glaciers likely didn’t extend to parts of England as far south as Salisbury Plain during the last ice age. People, not glaciers, ...

One of archaeology’s longest-running arguments may finally be put to rest. New research suggests the massive bluestones at Stonehenge were not dumped on Salisbury Plain by ice-age glaciers, but ...

New Curtin University research has delivered the strongest scientific evidence yet that people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge’s famous bluestones to the ancient site. The study challenges one ...