Archaeologists have discovered the ‘world’s oldest calendar’, dating back 12,000 years. Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic ...

Researchers speculate the ancient Greek Dragon Houses may have been used as temples, astronomical observatories, or storage ...

New research suggests that the ruins of Rujm el-Hiri have shifted over time, challenging long-standing theories about their ...

An international team of scientists from the University of Barcelona, the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain, and the ...

lecturer in archaeology at the University of Exeter. The word megalith comes from the ancient Greek “mega”, meaning huge and “lith” from “lithos”, meaning stone. The description covers ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the ...

coinciding with the Day of Megalithic Culture. The project, promoted by the city of Haldensleben in collaboration with the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt (LDA) ...

He obtained his PhD in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology ... namely the the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and the Megalithic Temples of Malta. In 2022, while holding a Shortland-Jones ...

Visitors have reported bizarre, unexplained happenings According to accounts on The Megalithic Portal, some visitors have reported intense feelings of great dread when entering a stone circle ...

Archaeology has provided the world with several ... The purpose of these megaliths remains a topic of debate. Some researchers claim that the jars were used to bury individuals in prehistoric ...

In the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the lush forest of Haldensleben, lies the largest concentration of megalithic tombs in Central Europe. Among them, the Küsterberg Megalithic Sepulcher, an ...

The ancient Kanayama Megaliths are extraordinary in their complexity. Across three sites, the solar observatories accurately measure not only solstices and equinoxes but also leap years.