After Orkney was ruled out as the origin for Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, geologists now have their eyes on north eastern ...

English Heritage, the organization that manages Stonehenge, said some 8,500 people celebrated Saturday at the monument on ...

After the winter solstice the Sun begins to move north again relative to the equator until eventually - six months later - it reaches it most northerly point, overhead the Tropic of Cancer, and gives ...

Wearing Celtic clothing and elaborate, nature-inspired headdresses, druids and pagans danced around the Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire thought to have been built by distant ancestors to align ...

As thousands of people descended on Stonehenge in England to see the winter solstice, one furry feline stole the show.

Stonehenge is part of a much older global tradition of monumental gathering places, stretching back to Karahantepe and beyond. These sites suggest that shared rituals, festivals, and collective labor ...

The origins of Stonehenge’s massive stone monoliths, long shrouded in mystery, have at last been demystified. Experts have traced them to boulders in the nearby chalk hills of Marlborough Downs, just ...

The shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere has been marked around the world.

STONEHENGE, England — The dramatic images show men struggling to haul the 25-ton stone pillars of Stonehenge into place, creating the distinctive outline of the 4,000-year-old stone circle. But these ...

For Moon Cat, a very outgoing Black Cat, those royal genes were on full display at the Winter Solstice celebration at ...

Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice. The crowds, many dressed as druids and pagans, had gathered ...