There are countless megalithic sites around the world, but while Stonehenge may be the most famous, know this: it is not the oldest or biggest. The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back about 11 ...

Each of the 32 colossal stones that make up the Menga Dolmen, a 5,600-year-old megalithic monument in southern Spain, is many times bigger than the largest megaliths at Stonehenge, the most famous ...

A retired diver located a wall off the coast of Britanny on a map; divers verified his claim through exploration between 2022 ...

Ordinarily, it is the task of archaeologists to painstakingly sift through the ground in pursuit of the past. A recent project in central Germany, however, has done something altogether different.

For decades, it was believed that Rujm el-Hiri—an ancient stone megalith located on Syria’s Golan Heights plateau consisting of circular walls orbiting a central mound—was used as an astronomical ...

Carrowmore in County Sligo is one of Europe’s oldest and largest megalithic cemeteries, containing passage tombs, dolmens, ...

Constructed pyramids have long been thought of as one of the peaks of human engineering. Despite the structures standing for thousands of years, archaeologists are still working to learn how the ...

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Collectively, the megaliths weigh about 1,140 metric tons. “I tell the students in my lectures … the weight is more than two Boeing 747 airplanes combined, the ones that fly across continents and so ...