This new timeline, established by researchers at the University of Exeter and Historic England, suggests Flagstones may be a ...

However, modern scholars now disagree that Druids were responsible for the construction of Stonehenge, given the historical timeline. “Druids only emerge in the last half of the first millennium ...

A proposed timeline for Flagstones and Stonehenge. CREDIT: Greaney et al. 2025 “The chronology of Flagstones is essential for understanding the changing sequence of ceremonial and funeral ...

That timeline, if proven accurate, would date it thousands of years earlier than Egypt’s pyramids or England’s Stonehenge — and possibly make it the oldest known structure ever built by humans.

Related: Why was Stonehenge built? Flagstones is about ... Greaney put together a more detailed timeline of a cluster of Neolithic monuments in the Dorchester area whose artifacts are kept at ...

Whereas the first Stonehenge was, according to Historic England’s timeline, erected around 3000 B.C.E., new radiocarbon dating has revealed Flagstones to date to about 3200 B.C.E. It was ...

Stonehenge researchers have found new evidence to argue the creation of the World Heritage Site was partly meant to unify the people living across Great Britain. The prehistoric megalithic ...

Researchers say they’ve tracked down the origins of Stonehenge’s so-called “Altar Stone,” the monolith at the center of one of the world’s most mysterious monuments. The purpose of the ...

A geological study of the Altar Stone shows it likely came from Orcadian Basin, Scotland, at least 466 miles from Stonehenge, researchers said in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.