Amesbury

A British MP was charged with assault today after he allegedly punched a passer-by, who he claims threatened him, after a night out on Friday.

Mike Amesbury was removed from the ruling Labour Party as he was recorded in CCTV and video footage punching a man and repeatedly hitting him after he collapsed to the ground.

The ancient ritual meaning of Stonehenge is still a mystery, but researchers are one step closer to understanding how the famous stone circle was created.

Dutch archaeologists on June 21 revealed an around 4,000-year-old religious site, dubbed the "Stonehenge of the Netherlands" in the country's media, which included a burial mound serving as a solar calendar.

It is known as “America’s Stonehenge.”

The sun was long overdue on June 21 but when it finally appeared, faces lit up and arms rose as one to greet the summer solstice at Britain's most famous prehistoric monument.

The sun was scheduled to come up on the longest day of the year at 4:49 am (3:49 GMT) but was shy in a sky as hazy as the minds of many of the midsummer revelers who spent the night at the sacred site.

As the sun rose over the frost on Salisbury Plain, archaeologist Sarah Greaney conjured up a picture of the hundreds of workers who built Stonehenge, a Neolithic wonder in southern England.

Larger than Stonehenge

A secret aircraft reportedly crashed during takeoff at RAF Boscombe Down in 1994 sparking what has been an enduring mystery

The first comprehensive scientific analysis of Stonehenge's imposing megaliths has revealed some of the traits that made them an exemplary building material for the famed monument in southern England including their stout resistance to weathering.

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As enchanting as they are mysterious, U.K.'s landmark Stonehenge is not the only one of its kind in the world. According to an art history professor, the dolmens in Turkey's Thracian provinces have a lot of functional similarities with the Stonehenge.