First Day of Summer at Stonehenge: Summer Solstice 2011 (Video)

Party at Stonehenge to Celebrate Summer Solstice June 21 marks the 2011 Summer Solstice, and over 18,000 Druids, Pagans and partiers gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sun rise. While the sunrise was obscured by...

The progress of humankind: Stonehenge benchmark

http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/ How long did it take to build Stonehenge? If you Google search the question you will get some people answering it that may or may not be consistent with the official Stonehenge...

New Stone Circle Found Near Stonehenge

A new stone circle has been discovered by archaeologists near Stonehenge. The discovery of this circle lends support to the theory that Stonehenge was originally part of a funeral complex. Joshua Pollard, an...

Spinal Tap Members Set 2009 Tour Dates for 'Unwigged & Unplugged'

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer the acclaimed members of legendary cult band Spinal Tap are getting set to tour across North America in summer 2009 — only this time they will be without their...

Canada's Stonehenge

" An academic maverick is challenging conventional wisdom on Canada's prehistory by claiming an archeological site in southern Alberta is really a vast, open-air sun temple with a precise 5,000-year-old calendar predating England's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids. ...

Breaking News: Alberta`s Suntemple Predates Pyramids, StoneHenge

Very exciting news in Canada`s history an academic scholar and retired University of Alberta professor Gordon Freemanout has found that Canada`s version of the StoneHenge.  Properly named the...

Gobekli Tepe: Evidence of The World’s First Temple

Fascinating prehistoric megaliths could be the world's oldest worship temple, the one - acre excavation has not yet releaved all of its secrets. " Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern...

Stonehenge 'was a cremation cemetry, not healing centre'

Stonehenge was apparently a cremation cemetry, not a healing centre. This decision has divided archaeologists over whether one of England's most famous tourist attractions was celebrating life or death. The...

Stonehenge was a Healing Centre, say Archaeologists

NEOLITHIC stone circles have always fascinated mankind; many thousands of years old, we wonder, who built them, and why?  After recent exacavations, archaelogists believe that Stonehenge may have been used as...

Stonehenge Dated, Was Healing Centre?

Radiocarbon dating has revealed that the Stonehenge monument was actually constructed in 2300BC, a few hundred years later than was previously estimated.  For the first time in over 40 years, excavation...

UN threatens to act against Britain for failure to protect heritage sites

Think of Britain and you think of 'heritage'. Much of its tourism is based on Olde England and the glories of British architecture so its shocking to find that the UN and some British experts believe that the UK...

Stones Cast Serious Doubt over Archeological 'Sequence of Construction'

For over 50 years archeological experts have perpetuated the idea of a phased construction at Stonehenge over a period of 1,000 years based on evidence recovered from excavation in the first half of the 20th...

National Geographic - Stonehenge Decoded

Stonehenge stood as giant tombstones to the dead for centuries—perhaps marking the cemetery of a ruling prehistoric dynasty—new radiocarbon dating suggests (2). The site appears to have been intended as a...

Stonehenge - Latest dig reveals Roman interference

Results from the first excavation at Stonehenge in 44 years has turned-up very little to justify Professors Darvill and Wainwright theory that the site was an ancient hospital (1). Their view, which contrasts with...

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