Stonehenge's purpose has long been a mystery, with some researchers proposing that it may have been an ancient solar calendar. But now, new analysis suggests the calendar theory is unsubstantiated.

All in all, the alleged "Neolithic" solar-precise Stonehenge calendar is shown to be a purely modern construct whose archaeoastronomical and calendrical bases are flawed.

According to the study the theory that Stonehenge served as a a solar calendar is wrong. Instead, its structure would have been linked to the connection between the afterlife and winter solstice ...

WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND—Live Science reports that a new study of Stonehenge suggests it was not built as a solar calendar, as had been previously suggested by Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth ...

Archaeoastronomy is a scientific discipline that applies astronomical observation to archaeological interpretation. Deeply rooted in scientific methods, archaeoastronomy is distinct from ...

An illustration shows what the researchers believe is the 4,000-year-old Stonehenge-like sanctuary that archaeologists have discovered in Tiel, a town in the centre of the Netherlands ...

12,000-year-old markings found on stone in Turkey may be oldest solar calendar. See it ... “For example, one of the most famous ancient megalithic sites of all, Stonehenge, ...