Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. It stands on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, and its giant stones can be seen from miles around. It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge.

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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 ...

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 ...

In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Science Direct, a research team led by geomorphologist Professor David ...

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Question: How do you know how much the monoliths at Stonehenge weigh? ~Jane Answer: We know how much the monoliths weigh as we can calculate to their overall volume, including the bit that's ...

Was Stonehenge used to predict eclipses? Previous claims have assumed a high degree of sophistication on the part of the builders of Stonehenge, and that the number of Aubrey holes (56 ...

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 near ...