Initially, its similarities to Stonehenge had archeologists and historians assuming that Flagstones must be of a similar date. “Flagstones is an unusual monument; a perfectly circular ditched ...
We can only guess what happened there, but it is likely that hundreds of people gathered at the stones. Some people think that Stonehenge was used to look at the movements of the Sun and Moon.
Every midsummer's night tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and witness the rising sun ... stones were symbolic or whether people were meant to observe the moon through ...
Sheep graze among the Stones of Stenness, which may have been a model for Stonehenge ... aligned to receive the rays of the setting sun on the eve of the winter solstice, illuminating its inner ...
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 ...
FILE - A section of Stonehenge, roughly 5,000 years old, on the Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, England, on Aug. 6, 2014. (ANDREW TESTA/The New York Times) ...