Archaeologists found traces of a milk protein in seven prehistoric Britons' calcified dental plaque Sophy Charlton/Dorset County Museum A new analysis of Neolithic farmers’ dental plaque suggests milk ...

Some say King Arthur slew a giant there. Others say he knelt in prayer and his knee print indentations are forever etched into the stone. Archaeologists set out to find out what really happened at ...

Prehistoric Britons traveled impressive distances to attend celebrations at monumental sites like Stonehenge, according to new research. Incredibly, many of them brought their pigs along with them for ...

Neolithic Britons cooked cereals, including wheat, in pots to make early forms of gruel and stew, new research has suggested. Scientists made the discovery by carrying out chemical analysis of ancient ...

Ancient DNA has provided scientists with a much better understanding of where the people who built Stonehenge came from. A study has found that ancestors of the Stonehenge builders traveled west ...

STONEHENGE, England – After thousands of years, Stonehenge has had a makeover. But visitors may initially feel something is missing: the prehistoric monument itself. Tourists now arrive at a gleaming ...

The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ancient humans ...

Mysterious man-made islands in Scotland are thousands of years older than we thought. The stone structures are found in lochs across the country and were likely built by ancient Britons as sacred ...

The descendants of Stonehenge’s creators arrived to Britain from the east. That’s the upshot of a remarkable new study in which researchers compared the DNA of Neolithic humans in Britain to that of ...