In December, a seemingly prehistoric stone monument was discovered on farmland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and archaeologists were shocked that it hadn’t been found earlier. Now, it seems the ...

While the research provides crucial new information, it also leaves many mysteries about the monument’s history ... in the north-east of Scotland the Altar Stone came from,” said Co-author ...

Recent findings suggest that Stonehenge, the prehistoric megalithic structure located in Wiltshire, England, may have served as a monument of unification for the peoples of Britain long before it ...

It also means that the ancient monument, near Salisbury ... how was the Altar Stone transported from the very north of Scotland, a distance of more than 700 kilometres, to Stonehenge, and, more ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

The stone monument began as a ‘dolmen’, made up of the giant capstone ... and a piece of pitchstone, from the Isle of Arran in Scotland. The excavations also recovered deposits of human bone ...

one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age monuments. Manchester’s Professor Julian Thomas, who led the excavation, says the imposing Herefordshire tomb is linked to nearby ‘halls of the dead’, which were ...