Metageum’07 is a week-long event that includes an international conference, guided visits to sacred sites, and workshops exploring the “Consciousness of the Megalithic Temple Builders”, which will be ...

Like many ancient sites, the existence of Su Nuraxi—a 3,500-year-old megalithic complex in Barumini, Sardinia—was known to local farmers long before it caught the attention of professional ...

Archaeologists in Le Peu found a fortified settlement of Europe’s “first megalithic builders” with homes and dramatic entrances, study said. Image from G. Bruniaux, V. Legrand, F. Lévêque, F. Lüth, V.

A stone kettle drum locally known as Nagaari Gund overlooking the megaliths at Hire Benakal. Photo by author The rock pool created by the megalith builders at Hire Benakal. Photo by author The ...

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Archaeologists in France have unearthed the place that the builders of Europe’s first megalithic monuments would have called home some 6,000 years ago. During the Neolithic, people in west-central ...

For several centuries, modern people have been trying to figure out how prehistoric farmers in southern Britain moved multi-ton blocks of stone into a pair of concentric circles at Stonehenge.

In the mid 17th century the architect Inigo Jones was instructed to survey Stonehenge. He declared the ruins too sophisticated to have been built by the barbaric Druids and proposed a Roman origin.

Whether its Stonehenge, the pyramids, or a myriad of other ancient places, we’ve long been fascinated by impressive monuments from the distant past. But more often than not, the stories of the people ...