Home » Topics » Stonehenge
Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa or a cemetery?
Archaeologists back conflicting theories on Britain’s greatest prehistoric monument It already attracts more than a million visitors a year. Yet these numbers could be dwarfed once Stonehenge, one of the world’s greatest prehistoric monuments, completes its radical facelift. Over the next year, the nearby A344 will be closed and grassed…
British archaeologists: Stonehenge was an ancient rave spot
British researchers on Saturday unveiled a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge, saying the ancient stone circle was originally a graveyard and venue for mass celebrations. The findings would overturn the long-held belief that Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in southwestern England was created as a Stone Age astronomical calendar…
Stonehenge may have been burial site for Stone Age elite, say archaeologists
Dating cremated bone fragments of men, women and children found at site puts origin of first circle back 500 years to 3,000 BC Centuries before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge, the world’s most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Samurai sword-wielding homeowner kills armed robber in California
- Denmark wins Eurovision Song Contest
- Researcher: Owning a gun for safety like hiding from lightning under a tree
- Gay and lesbian couples push for same-sex marriage in Venezuela
- Right-wing radio host: I want to shoot Clinton right in the vagina
- Fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published
- Human tissue cloning could treat heart disease or Parkinson’s disease
- Noam Chomsky: Obama was willing to start nuclear war to kill bin Laden
- Psychologists find being positioned above others buffers against effects of ostracization
- Democrat tears into GOP for politicizing IRS hearing and encouraging ‘pollution of our democracy’
Commentary
Stop whining about Millennials
By Pando Daily
Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration’s scandals
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
