Stonehenge was built to unify ancient Britons during a “legitimation crisis” caused by the migration of people from mainland Europe, researchers have suggested. More than 4,000 years ago, The ...

Stonehenge may have had a second purpose beyond its well-documented astronomical uses. A new study claims that the monument may have been built in part to unify neighboring people groups in and ...

Now researchers have suggested that the stone circle at Stonehenge, built during this period, may have been designed to unite early farming communities across Britain in response to the influx of ...

Solar calendar. Place of worship. UFO Landing site. Many uses have been theorized for Stonehenge. Researchers have now added another: monument to unity, they propose in an Archaeology International ...

Stonehenge was a failed experiment in "unifying" early Briton communities, new research has suggested. Archaeologists have suggested that the Neolithic stone circle was built to "unify" early ...

The purpose of the historical Stonehenge landmark has remained a mystery for thousands of years, yet researchers claim they now know the meaning behind it. Experts believe that Stonehenge was ...

Archaeologists wasted no time in 2024, digging up incredible finds, such as the remains of an ancient temple in Greece and golden tongues in ancient Egyptian burials, and then analyzing them to ...

The sight of Stonehenge, with its broken circle of stones and mighty central trilithons, standing in apparent isolation on Salisbury Plain has been mesmerising travellers for centuries.

Crowds gather to watch the sunrise over spiritual sites in Wiltshire and Somerset. Crowds gathered at Stonehenge on Saturday morning to mark the annual winter solstice. Students and academics from ...

Stonehenge was likely built as a project to unify ancient peoples from across the whole of the country, archaeologists claim in a new study. The research, published on Thursday in the journal ...

The recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones originated in Scotland supports a theory that the stone circle was built as a monument to unite Britain’s early farmers nearly 5,000 years ago, ...