Thousands have welcomed in the shortest and darkest day of 2020 this morning, tuning in to watch the Winter Solstice sunrise over Stonehenge on live stream as visitors are banned from the site. The shortest day of the year was met with driving rain and howling winds at the historic landmark in Salisbury, usually packed … Read more
‘Pagan’ vandals are being hunted by police after leaving red handprints on 5,000-year-old neolithic tomb cave as a ‘sacrificial offering’ Police hunting ‘Pagans’ who vandalised Stoney Littleton Long Barrow near Bath The bizarre graffiti was made from red food dye and smeared on historical rocks Neolithic chambered tomb dates from 3500 BC, one of England’s … Read more
Some 1,200 years ago, an ancient civilization would visit a large wooden temple on what is now Norway to pray and make sacrifices to Norse gods such as Odin and Thor – and archaeologists have found evidence of the pagan structure. Archaeologists from the University Museum of Bergen have been excavating a site in the … Read more