The Su Nuraxi stone complex was built by some of Sardinia’s oldest-known settlers, the mysterious Nuragic people.

Different places around the world have unique megalithic sites. Argentina has megaliths with engravings, Germany has ancient tombs, and Laos has giant stone jars. Sardinia, Italy, and the United ...

Megaliths are huge stones placed in prominent positions in the landscape. But why? In the absence of any written testimony, scientific advances are starting to plug the gaps and help ...

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

What if the real treasures of Indonesia were to be found far from the Bali area? These 5 Indonesian islands manage to keep a ...

In addition to farming, the Neolithic migrants to Britain appear to have introduced the tradition of building monuments using large stones known as megaliths. Stonehenge in Wiltshire was part of ...

In the south, megaliths were being raised to the dead, and herdsmen were piling dung and establishing ash-mounds. Art appeared painted on cave walls and etched on rocks along the coast.

One theory that probably has not been considered is the use of water on land to move the megaliths. I don't mean floating them on a barge down a river, but actually constructing a large portable ...

Most center on the mystical idea that the massive megaliths were moved using "mana," or divine power. Those who possessed mana were able to command the moai to walk to their designated places.

A test of the metre-long core was matched with a geochemical study of the standing megaliths. Archaeologists pinpointed the source of the stones to an area 15 miles (25km) north of the site near ...

There are more than twice as many females as males buried in an ancient cemetery in Spain, a new study finds — but no one knows why. Archaeologists in southern Spain have discovered a cemetery ...

Little Kit's Coty, a group of megaliths in Kent, are known as "The Countless Stones", as it is said that whenever you count the stones you come up with a different number each time. The tale has ...