For years, the 16-foot Altar Stone was grouped with the so-called “bluestones” of Stonehenge, many of which are believed to have been sourced from the Preseli Hills in Wales. The new findings ...

Earlier this year, experts discovered that Stonehenge's central six-ton altar stone may have come from ... from the Preseli hills in what is now Wales. Mike Parker Pearson, a professor of British ...

Archaeologists have long believed that Stonehenge ... buys into the healing stone theory. “I think the survey work [Darvill and Wainwright are] doing in the Preseli hills is great, and I ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Stonehenge gets some well-deserved attention when it comes to British archeology. Between its age, altar stone’s epic journey ...

Question: On the Stonehenge raising, they used a weighted tip to tilt the main riser stone into the hole ... that the builders slid stones down hills (perhaps after a rainstorm) to take advantage ...

Science Direct Stonehenge remains profoundly mysterious ... But every year scientists learn more about the great stone enigma on Salisbury Plain. Most recently, a team from the University of ...

It took a huge effort to build Stonehenge. The only tools the builders had were made of stone, wood and rope! Only a few stones are left standing today. More than 4,000 years ago a small ring of ...

Question: On the Stonehenge raising, they used a weighted tip to tilt the main riser stone into the hole ... that the builders slid stones down hills (perhaps after a rainstorm) to take advantage ...