The focal point of these festivities is the Altar Stone—the six-ton sandstone slab that lies flat at the center of Stonehenge. The ancient society that built this monument, from 3,100 to 1,600 ...

Allsen said the exterior stone ... moving the altar forward and removing the organ pipes. In the patio, the convent's "key feature" of the round arches continues between pillars decorated with ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, demonstrates that the iconic 6-ton "Altar Stone" likely came from what is now northeast Scotland—at the opposite end of the island of Great Britain ...

Researchers say they’ve tracked down the origins of Stonehenge’s so-called “Altar Stone,” the monolith at the center of one of the world’s most mysterious monuments. The purpose of the ...

The site’s six-ton Altar Stone hails from over 400 miles north in Scotland, not from Wales or other closer areas of southern England as scientists previously thought. This trek points to the ...

In Arthurian legend, the so-called Altar Stone was part of the ring of giant rocks that the wizard Merlin magically transported from Mount Killaurus, in Ireland, to Salisbury Plain, a chalk ...

Experts on the prehistoric site are abuzz over a new report stating that the Altar Stone — one of the most mysterious pieces of the monument, according to the Washington Post — may have been ...

Stonehenge had a hard Scottish heart, a new study suggests. The ancient site’s central stone, a large slab known as the Altar Stone, consists of rock transported at least 750 kilometers from ...

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