It is one of the most important emblems of humanity. Although its origin and purpose are unknown, Stonehenge has been located ...

Researchers now know the exact region in Scotland where Stonehenge's Altar Stone ... helped researchers narrow down the stone's true origin. "The Altar Stone was always grouped with the other ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge's central sandstone slab — long called the ''altar stone" — came from much closer Wales. But a study last year by some of the ...

Such is the case with the origin story of the Altar Stone—one of the roughly 80-plus stones still on site in southern England. The stones of Stonehenge feature a variety of compositions and ...

In 1839, a naval officer named Captain Beamish dug out an estimated 400 cubic feet of soil from the northeast of the Altar Stone at Stonehenge. As Parker Pearson notes in his book Stonehenge, ...

The researchers therefore hypothesize that Stonehenge was an effort to bring together far-flung communities on the island, by building with the most magnificent rocks from each. The Altar Stone ...

This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past The mysterious origin of Stonehenge’s altar stone might have ...

100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the Baltimore ...

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