provided a near-perfect match with the Altar Stone, suggesting a Scottish origin. “This discovery rewrites what we know about Stonehenge,” said Anthony Clarke, lead author and PhD student at C ...

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

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 ...

Stonehenge, the famous megalith in Wiltshire, England has puzzled experts for centuries. Even today, it presents more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered that Stonehenge's Altar Stone originated from Scotland, not Wales, significantly altering our understanding of its origins.