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English Heritage unveils recreation of 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge

The Kusuma Neolithic Hall, based on Durrington 68 site, will allow visitors to ‘step back in time’ into the lives of those who built the stone circleIt may have been a place for ce...

How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time

On a visit to the UK, Sydney-based reporter James Woodford visited an archaeological site that was on his bucket list – and experienced a very special moment as the sun set

Wooden platform older than Stonehenge found hidden beneath man-made island in Scotland

The analysis found that the crannog started out as a circular wooden platform, measuring at around 23 meters across, and topped with brushwood.

Pagan Eye: Constable's Stonehenge at the Tate Britain

Constable's watercolour of Stonehenge with a rainbow in the sky above it is one of my favourite paintings of the famous ancient monument. I took this photo of it at the Turner and...

Why Was An Artificial Island Older Than Stonehenge Built In Loch Bhorgastail On The Isle Of Lewis?

Conny Waters - Ancientpages.com - Why was an artificial island, predating even Stonehenge, constructed in Loch Bhorgastail on the Isle of Lewis? What purpose did it serve for the p...

Archaeologists reveal secrets of artificial island older than Stonehenge in Scottish loch

A stone causeway, now underwater, leads from the loch shore to the island

Hengefinder finds streets that perfectly frame the setting sun

Hengefinder is an app that, given times and places, can help you experience "stunning moments when the sun or moon aligns perfectly with city streets and buildings." A "henge" is...

Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Artificial Island Older Than Stonehenge in Scotland

A Scottish crannog older than Stonehenge has been mapped in new detail using a shallow-water 3D imaging technique. Archaeologists at the University of Southampton have excavated an...

Researchers Just Realized That This Island In A Scottish Lake Is Actually Manmade — And It Predates Stonehenge

The crannog in Loch Bhorgastail was built between 3500 and 3300 B.C.E., and the Neolithic pottery found in the water surrounding it suggests that it may have been used for cooking...

Tales of the prehistoric graves dating back to Neolithic times

Just outside the Cotswolds comes a story that possibly preserves some of the earliest thinking about the long barrows created by our Neolithic ancestors.

Travellers 'smash through fence' to enter site of ancient Edinburgh landmark at Huly Hill in Newbridge

Ancient stone circle site occupied as 20 caravans break through perimeter fence

Wind Farm Construction In England Has Turned Up Ancient Ruins Including A Roman Villa And A Neolithic Burial Mound

In addition to the villa and the burial mound, archaeologists uncovered a chair leg shaped like a lion's head and a serpentine vessel handle they've named "Norfolk Nessie." The pos...

How the secrets of a man-made Scottish island older than Stonehenge were unveiled

Archaeologists have used innovative techniques to reveal the secrets of an artificial island older than Stonehenge in a Scottish loch, discovering a large timber platform hidden be...

Huge Scottish Neolithic Tombs Were Built To Trace Kinship And Lineages Over Centuries

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of genetic connections among people buried in Neolithic chambered tombs in northern Scotland, su...

Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky

For most of human history, the sky was not something we studied — it was something we lived with. The post Stonehenge and the Geometry of the Sky appeared first on Sky & Telesc...

Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland National Park, Britain

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Stones on Time Life building

All the Listing has to say about this sculpture is: "On the west elevation is a raised geometrical abstract form in tooled stone." Not even the name of the sculptor.

Prehistoric cave hidden beneath Pembroke Castle reveals 120,000 years of human and animal history

Remarkably Intact Iron Age Timber-And-Stone Structure Unearthed In Aschaffenburg, Germany

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Workers discovered archaeological structures dating to the 4th century BC while building a stormwater overflow basin north of the Willigis Bridge in...

Obelisk to stand at centre of new Oxfordshire public square

A striking stone obelisk will stand at the heart of the market square at the Park View development in Woodstock, soon to be known as Wincott Square.

Mysteries Of Old Europe – Lost Ancient Non-Hierarchical Civilization And Its Giant Structures Investigated By Archaeolog...

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered a giant structure built by one of the most mysterious and unusual civilizations that lived in Europe several thousan...

A newly discovered 6,000-year-old mega-structure in Romania is rewriting Europe’s prehistoric history

New Analysis Just Determined That A Pendant Found In England In 1867 Was Made From A 15,000-Year-Old Seal Tooth

Nearly 160 years ago, one of Victorian England's most storied archaeological digs turned up a prehistoric pendant inside a cave along the English Channel — and researchers have jus...

Iron Age fort hidden behind a Cardiff housing estate

Nestled deep in a Cardiff suburb, surrounded by houses, is one of the most important, yet little understood, prehistoric monuments in the region