Unlike Stonehenge, Avebury allows visitors to explore its vast stone circles up close, offering insight into Neolithic engineering and cosmic alignment. Dated around 3000 BC, the site’s sheer ...

Take it slow on a boat trip down Ireland’s most storied waterway, which courses through the country’s green heart via ...

When people think of ancient burials in North Africa, they often picture Egypt's pyramids and monuments. But new discoveries ...

One moment you're tracing the footsteps of Celtic warriors at stone circles older than recorded history; the next you're eating farm-to-table food inside one of Ireland’s most famous castle hotels.

New radiocarbon dating and human remains, red deer antlers, and charcoal found in the area puts this ancient stone circle near Dorchester ... and some locations in Ireland. Similar burial ...

A new list of Scotland's "best places to see stone circles and standing stones" has been shared. There is a huge variety of historic beauty spots all over the country that are perfect for those ...

Many of Ireland’s backroads lead to ancient Megalithic structures that beckon one to imagine what life would have been like between 4600 and 600 BC when most stone circles and dolmens (portal ...

The archaeologist Aubrey Burl, of whose original Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany this is a revised ... the engineers had drawn a straight line on the map that went directly ...

More than 1,000 surviving prehistoric stone circles are known in Great Britain and Ireland. While the original purpose of these structures remains unclear, they are thought to have been used for ...

A small village in England described as "magical" by a witch is home to the largest stone circle in Britain - and it's said to be much better than Stonehenge. "Avebury henge and stone circles are ...

The dolmen or cromlech-type burial sites found relatively often in Wales and Ireland are considered only if they relate to one or more stone circles. Skara Brae on Orkney, one of the best ...

Nobody knows for sure what stone circles were used for, but most archaeologists agree that they served some sort of ceremonial function. One popular theory suggests they were used as astronomical ...