Each of the 32 colossal stones that make up the Menga Dolmen, a 5,600-year-old megalithic monument in southern Spain, is many times bigger than the largest megaliths at Stonehenge, the most famous ...

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.

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 ...

Hidden deep in Abydos lies the Osirion, a megalithic structure carved from stone blocks weighing hundreds of tons. Its ...

DNA analysis has revealed kin relationships between more than 10 generations of Stone Age people at megalithic tombs in Ireland and Sweden. The evidence suggests that megaliths, prehistoric large ...

One of Europe’s largest megalithic sites has been unearthed in southern Spain. Archaeologists working at La Torre-La Janera, near the city of Huelva, have discovered a remarkable number of ...

Far off the western tip of France, beneath cold Atlantic swells, archaeologists have mapped what looks less like scattered ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than 500 standing stones on a land that was earmarked for avocado plantation in southern Spain, according to reports. Experts believe it is one of the world’s ...

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 ...