The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

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 ...

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.

Carrowmore in County Sligo is the largest megalithic cemetery in Ireland and may also be one of the oldest in Europe. Radiocarbon dating suggests that its earliest monument could date to around 5400 ...

The megalithic menhirs, the mysterious standing stones dating back to 3,000 years located in a remote village of Mudumal in Telangana’s Narayanpet district bordering Karnataka, are most likely to be ...

A new study uncovers gender bias at the megalithic necropolis of Panoria where twice as many women were buried. A multidisciplinary research team led by the Archaeometry research group of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a sprawling complex of megalithic stones in Spain—a site now believed to be among the largest of its kind in Europe. More than 500 stones were found at La Torre-La ...

The construction of complex megalithic tombs was a hallmark of the Neolithic period in Europe, yet this practice seems to have ceased rather abruptly at the end of the fourth millennium BCE. Numerous ...

Last spring, MIT teaching assistant Carrie Lee McKnelly lost both her parents to a fire. As a tribute, her design students gathered on the university’s front lawn to erect a 2,000-pound concrete ...