There are countless megalithic sites around the world, but while Stonehenge may be the most famous, know this: it is not the oldest or biggest. The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back about 11 ...

Newgrange and other megaliths thought to be inspired by ancient culture in France The origins of Newgrange and other European megalithic sites have been traced back to France by a Swedish researcher.

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Some 500 kilometres west of Paris, on Brittany’s Atlantic coast, stand the mysterious prehistoric stone alignments of Morbihan – now on Unesco's World Heritage list. RFI went to see why the ancient ...

Although Stonehenge may be the most famous of Europe's megaliths, it's far from the only one: There are about 35,000 of these mysterious stone structures throughout the continent. Now a new study ...

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2000-12-24 04:00:00 PDT COUNTY CLARE, Ireland-- Alongside a country road in the desolate-looking Burren region of County Clare, there is a rock formation so odd that first-time visitors cannot resist ...

NOVA's "Secrets of Stonehenge" presents exciting new archeological evidence about the building and purpose of the world's most famous stone monument, leading to a provocative theory that it was ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

Stonehenge's ancient megaliths in Wiltshire, United Kingdom have major cracks due to centuries of rain and wind. Matthew Cattell/Getty Images for Samsung Galaxy S8 LONDON — Vital repair work to fix ...

If there’s even the slightest silver lining to the ravages of climate change, it’s that the warming conditions are revealing some previously unknown archaeological sites and artifacts. This past ...

For several centuries, modern people have been trying to figure out how prehistoric farmers in southern Britain moved multi-ton blocks of stone into a pair of concentric circles at Stonehenge.