Perfect circles of stones cover the ground in parts of Alaska and the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen. Elsewhere in the far north, stones form other striking patterns on the ground: polygons, stripes ...
A prehistoric Stone circle in England may have been erected some 700 years before the origin of the iconic Stonehenge monument, an archaeologist has proposed. The Castlerigg stone circle, located in ...
Grand, centuries-old cathedrals distinguish Great Britain's cities and towns, providing spiritual nourishment to those who visit. These places of worship seem ancient almost beyond imagination. But ...
Outside the southern English village of Avebury, there’s a huddle of towering beech trees that local lore claims inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s humanoid trees, the Ents. True or not, the village’s ...
Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 28, No. 102, Part 2: Memoir 19: FROM MICROCOSM TO MACROCOSM: Advances in Tipi Ring Investigation and Interpretation (1983), pp. 156-170 (15 pages) Intuitive observations of ...
Last night, I dreamt I went to Castlerigg again. These, of course, are the wistful dreams engendered by the times we are living in, but Castlerigg is one place I really would like to revisit. Located ...
Grand, centuries-old cathedrals distinguish Great Britain’s cities and towns, providing spiritual nourishment to those who visit. These places of worship seem ancient almost beyond imagination. But ...
Update: Archaeologists recently found that the "ancient" stone circle in Scotland was actually built in the 1990s by a Scottish farmer. Read more about the new discovery. An ancient circle of standing ...