The altar is a three-tiered square platform built of white marble, its shape symbolizing the ancient notion that the earth is square. There are four stone staircases, one on each side, leading up ...

A MYSTERIOUS stone carved nearly 1,700 years ago has been unearthed in a region rich with Biblical history, where Jesus is ...

Stonehenge's altar stone was quarried over 4,600 years ago, far from the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. But experts now know ...

This pagan altar stone is from there. The sandstone altar would have stood in the open air, the depression in the top would have been used for burning sacrifices. In the 1850's the altar was ...

The new findings about the Altar Stone add another layer of intrigue to this ancient wonder, offering a deeper connection to the ingenuity of our ancestors.

Stone circles are ancient and mysterious indeed ... The Drombeg Stone Circle in County Cork, also known as Druid’s Altar, is one of the most visited megalithic sites in Ireland.

The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from ... It also means that the ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England, was built with stones from all parts of Great ...

The placement of stones allows for the sun to rise through a stone “window” during summer solstice. The ancient purpose of the altar stone — which lies flat at the heart of Stonehenge ...