Our results are now published in the journal Nature—and it looks like the Altar Stone came from Scotland. The DNA of rocks. At midsummer dawn, the Altar Stone is set ablaze with sunlight.

The so-called Altar Stone, new research has revealed, was transported all the way from Scotland, a journey of more than 750 kilometers (466 miles), to be installed in the monument that sits smack ...

As for the Altar Stone, these researchers like a maritime route. They point out that Neolithic people introduced the common vole from continental Europe to Orkney.

In this photo provided by researchers in August 2024, Stonehenge’s Altar Stone lies underneath two Sarsen stones in Wiltshire, England. (Nick Pearce/Aberystwyth University via AP) ...

The largest of the "bluestones" that comprise the inner circle at Stonehenge is known as the Altar Stone. Like its neighbors, scientists previously thought the stone had originated in western ...

The unique stone lying flat at the center of the monument was brought to the site in southern England from near the tip of northeast Scotland, researchers […] ...

The Altar Stone is the largest of the stone circle's "bluestones". It was previously thought to be sourced from a site in west Wales but new research has cast doubt on that.

A 2,800-year-old inscribed stone altar, found within a Moabite sanctuary in the ancient city of Ataroth in Jordan, may shed light on an ancient biblical war.

Our results are now published in the journal Nature – and it looks like the Altar Stone came from Scotland. The flat, partially submerged Altar Stone of Stonehenge, seen here under two sarsen ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge’s central sandstone slab — long called the “altar stone" — came from much closer Wales.

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge’s central sandstone slab — long called the “altar stone” — came from much closer Wales. But a study last year by some ...