The Menga Dolmen, a prehistoric megalithic structure near Antequera, stands as one of the most impressive and enigmatic ...

Megaliths are huge stones placed in prominent positions in the landscape. But why? In the absence of any written testimony, scientific advances are starting to plug the gaps and help ...

Megalithic structures are fascinating due to their prehistoric origins and mysterious creators. The Carnac Stones in France ...

A love for astronomy drew Srikumar M. Menon to megaliths, stone structures erected by ancient people in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, continuing through the Iron Age and Early Historic ...

Many of Ireland’s backroads lead to ancient Megalithic structures that beckon one to imagine what life would have been like between 4600 and 600 BC when most stone circles and dolmens (portal ...

In addition to farming, the Neolithic migrants to Britain appear to have introduced the tradition of building monuments using large stones known as megaliths. Stonehenge in Wiltshire was part of ...

A test of the metre-long core was matched with a geochemical study of the standing megaliths. Archaeologists pinpointed the source of the stones to an area 15 miles (25km) north of the site near ...

Visitors have reported bizarre, unexplained happenings According to accounts on The Megalithic Portal, some visitors have reported intense feelings of great dread when entering a stone circle ...

IN his presidential address to Section H (see NATURE, vol. lxxxvii., p. 356), at the meeting of the British Association at Portsmouth in 1911, Dr. Rivers explained how he had been led to reject ...

With this tool, the researchers were able to discover 303 new figurative geoglyphs, doubling the number of known megaliths in the region. They report, in their study published in the Proceedings ...

The burials consist of circles made of large boulders, hence the name ‘megalithic’. In south India, this period has been broadly placed in the bracket of 1200 BCE to 300 CE”.

A team of history and archaeology scholars and students from the University of Mysore have embarked on an excavation of megalithic burial sites in Chamarajanagar district. The excavations are ...