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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers believe they may have solved the riddle of Stonehenge's Altar Stone, suggesting that the enigmatic megalith was constructed as part of an attempt to protect the identity of Neolithic ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...