The Carnac alignments* were erected in the Neolithic era, between the fifth and third millenia B.C., by sedentarised communities who raised livestock and farmed.

• Enigmatic chambered tombs such as West Kennet Long Barrow. • Carnac, with more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, the world’s largest collection of megalithic monuments. • The uninhabited …

At Carnac, the centre of the megalithic monuments and an important watering-place, two comfortable hotels await tourists who having visited the church, the fountain, and especially the Musée J. Miln, …

At the two large lunar observatories in Carnac a different method was used: the observers looked inwards to a common foresight consisting in each case of a huge menhir. We suggest that of these …

Carnac was an “omniscient soothsayer” who could “divine the answers to questions that were hermetically sealed in envelopes.” Carnac would hold the envelope up to his forehead, then give the …

Vieux de 7000 ans, le site mégalithique de Carnac, le plus célèbre de la région, demeure un haut lieu de la préhistoire européenne. Il est classé au titre des Monuments Historiques depuis 1889. Nichés …

This paper considers the coastal area of Southern Morbihan which includes the Carnac area and the Golfe du Morbihan. This is part of a larger study area covering some 2000 square kilometres, in …