This year in the run-up to the winter solstice Amesbury townspeople were fortunate to start proceedings with a lecture from Prof. David ...

This year in the run-up to the winter solstice Amesbury townspeople were fortunate to start proceedings with a lecture from ...

At Stonehenge in England, the sun rises in perfect alignment with one of the stones on the winter solstice, and even today, people gather to witness this ancient phenomenon. Similarly, Newgrange in ...

On my recent December birthday, a card I received wished me: "Many happy returns." "I'm down with that," I thought to myself. "Lots more birthdays sound like a good thing." But I have since learned ...

British researchers who have spent years studying Stonehenge are proposing a novel purpose for the monument's existence.

A few days ago, we made it through the inky tunnel of the year’s longest night. Now, for some of us anyway, here comes the ...

The celebrations at Wiltshire's world-famous Stonehenge were managed by English Heritage, which has live-streamed the event.

Thousands of people gather at the ancient English monument of Stonehenge to greet sunrise on winter solstice, the northern ...

Thousands of people celebrated the winter solstice at Stonehenge, a place of worship in southern England. Some wore costumes, ...

Geological analyses revealed that the Altar Stone, a central piece of the monument weighing over six tons, originated from northeastern Scotland, ruling out previous theories that it came from west ...

Thousands of people greeted the sun with cheers and applause as it rose over Stonehenge at the winter solstice. Those who observed the spectacle on Saturday at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire ...

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest ...