So we are left with two theories: that the Altar Stone was dragged 500 miles or more overland by our Neolithic forebears, before the invention of the wheel, across the high hills and through the ...

New research has overturned a century-old belief about the origins of Stonehenge’s famous Altar Stone. The new study shows that the six-tonne sandstone block, which forms the centerpiece of the ...

Transport by ship down England’s east coast before lugging the Altar Stone about 160 kilometers to Stonehenge from the English Channel, rather than a strictly overland route, makes more sense if ...

Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.

The Altar Stone sits in the inner circle of Stonehenge buried underneath two fallen sarsen stones, barely visible to visitors. Aberystwyth University The so-called "cold moon" above Stonehenge on ...

The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge most likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ancient humans transported ...

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The Altar Stone, also not local, is twice the size of the biggest other bluestone. ... New evidence suggests Neanderthals were rendering fat nearly 100,000 years before other early humans.

Neolithic people moved Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone ... astronomer Johannes Kepler used a projecting device in 1607 to help him sketch the sunspots he saw just a few years before the ...

The Altar Stone is seen underneath two bigger stones at the Stonehenge site in Wiltshire, England. Nick Pearce/Aberystwyth University Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s ...

So we are left with two theories: that the Altar Stone was dragged 500 miles or more overland by our Neolithic forebears, before the invention of the wheel, across the high hills and through the ...