The winter solstice, traditionally celebrated at Stonehenge, is the shortest day ... align with the sun in both midsummer (June 21) and midwinter (December 21), specifically with the midsummer ...

Question: Why was Stonehenge built ... My feeling is still that the midwinter solstice, which is pretty close to our Christmas, was the most significant of these turning points.

A new idea is that Stonehenge was about the winter solstice, or the shortest day ... with the festival of the dead celebrated at midwinter.” It is unlikely the archer set off from the Alps ...

The stones’ alignment means that on the Summer Solstice the Sun rises directly ... ceremony of the year was probably held on Midwinter’s Night at Stonehenge. This may have been because it ...

The Stonehenge was built around 3,000 BC to align with the winter solstice sunset ... on the alignment of the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. The dates of the equinoxes and solstices ...

Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

Stonehenge was likely built as a project to unify ancient ... A person standing right at the centre of the stone circle could see the midwinter solstice Sun set over its middle.

Question: Why was Stonehenge built ... My feeling is still that the midwinter solstice, which is pretty close to our Christmas, was the most significant of these turning points.