Stonehenge’s Altar Stone transported by a glacier

In 2024, archaeologists investigating the geology of stones at Stonehenge discovered that the Altar Stone at the centre of the monument originated near the...

The last European tapir

If you have never seen a tapir, it is difficult to picture what the animal looks like. Imagine a cross between a pig and...

The Vučedol dove

Chalcolithic The Chalcolithic was an archaeological period between the Neolithic and Bronze Ages which saw the transition from stone-working to copper-smelting and the beginnings of...

A violent sacrifice in the bog

Grauballe Man is the world’s best preserved bog body. In fact he is so well preserved that scientists were able to take his fingerprints! The man...

The second largest stone circle in Britain

Stonehenge is the best known prehistoric stone circle in Britain, but it is not the largest. Or even the second largest. First place goes...

Alun Harvey