Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readMore than 3,000 granite standing stones march in long parallel rows across the moorland of Brittany, raised by Neolithic hands some 6,500 years ago — and archaeologists still do not know why.
About 4 min readBuilt by hunter-gatherers around 9600 BCE — thousands of years before Stonehenge or the pyramids — Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known monumental temple, and it challenges everything we thought we knew about how civilisation began.
About 4 min readStonehenge was built in stages over some 1,500 years, by farming communities who left no writing. Archaeology can tell us when, how, and in what order — but the question of why is still open.