The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

Archaeologists in Dijon, France, have uncovered rare seated burials featuring Gallic graves and a children’s cemetery.

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

Could the Pre-Christian and Christian historical sites at Finner in Bundoran, Co Donegal illuminate a connection to the stars ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of Bornholm, 150 km south-east of Copenhagen, and have now used environmental data to link the timing of their burial with ...