It's almost hard to believe that after 5,000 years, Stonehenge still holds secrets. Why was the altar moved this far? More importantly, how was it done?

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Stonehenge’s iconic Altar Stone did not come from Orkney – but elsewhere in north-eastern Scotland, scientists say. The new findings follow last month’s reports that the largest “bluestone” at the ...

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(CNN) - Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims through the ages.

Construction workers in Cologne, Germany, have unearthed a significant Roman site dating back almost 2,000 years. The accidental discovery, made during construction of the LVR-Jewish Museum, revealed ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into events in an enclave of the city’s foreign overlords in the wake of a local coup. Archaeologists recently unearthed the altar in a ...