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Summer Solstice 2022 - what does it mean, as 6,000 flock to Stonehenge

Summer Solstice is here to mark the beginning of the summer - as revellers head out to historic sights including Glastonbury Tor and Stonehenge, where 6,000 are reported to have gathered overnight

Daily Mirror

Summer solstice celebrated at Stonehenge for first time since 2019

Police said the event was peaceful with only two arrests

Wales Online

Thousands attend summer solstice at Stonehenge

Those who observed the spectacle at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire encountered a chilly morning accompanied by clear skies at 4.49am.

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Summer solstice crowds flock back to Stonehenge after Covid hiatus

Pagans and party-goers head back to Salisbury Plain in their thousands as site reopens for annual festivities

The Guardian - UK

Queen projected onto Stonehenge to mark Jubilee - prompting widespread mockery

ENGLISH Heritage has been widely mocked online after it projected pictures of the Queen onto Stonehenge.

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Queen photos projected onto Stonehenge and Marble Arch to celebrate Platinum Jubilee

HRH’s face will illuminate national landmarks to celebrate 70th year on the throne

The Independent UK

Secrets surrounding 5,000-year-old Stonehenge revealed in ancient fossilised POO

The mystery of Stonehenge has bamboozled archaeologists for decades, but a detailed picture of the people who visited the site about 5,000 years is slowly coming to light

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Prehistoric faeces reveal parasites from feasting near Stonehenge

Analysis of the faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near the monument has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms.

The Independent UK

Experts uncover series of Stonehenge mystery monuments that could reveal secrets of the past

Prehistoric people created a vast network of monuments inside the sacred landscape’s bedrock

The Independent UK

Stonehenge exhibition explores parallels with Japanese stone circles

Objects never before seen outside Japan will be part of show on similarities to Jōmon monuments

The Guardian - UK

Stonehenge ‘was built on land inhabited by deer and wild boar 4,000 years earlier’

Scientists from the University of Southampton have examined Blick Mead, a Mesolithic archaeological site about a mile away from Stonehenge.

The Independent UK

Meet the last person who will ever be born at Stonehenge - after 'hippie' mum went into labour at festival

"It is a truly magical feeling of standing at one of the great wonders of the world and knowing you were born there"

Wales Online

Largest comet EVER weighing 500 trillion tons moving towards Earth at 22,000mph

The C/2014 UN271, or the Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, has a nucleus of about 80 miles in diameter, which is about the distance from London to Stonehenge

Daily Mirror

Part of the way to Stonehenge to be restored to how ancient pilgrims saw it

National Trust acquires two areas of land near monument that it will turn back into chalk grassland

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Vicky Pattison to take on gruelling dementia trek in memory of beloved granddad

Former I’m a Celebrity winner, Vicky Pattison, is taking on the Alzheimer’s Society’s Trek26 Stonehenge event on September 3 in memory of her grandad

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Stonehenge is a 5,000-year-old Google Cal, new research shows

In this edition of Inverse Daily, determine if Stonehenge is a 5,000-year-old calendar, learn about how the molecule colibactin leads to colon cancer, and more.

Evening Standard

Stonehenge mystery solved as a solar calendar - with links to ancient Egypt

The prehistoric monument may have a simpler purpose than we thought and link the English mystery to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The Independent UK

Mystery of Stonehenge ‘solved’ as ancient Egyptians used it for solar calendar, expert claims

Professor Timothy Darvill said the site was designed as a calendar to help people keep track of the days, weeks and months

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Wales Online

Expert explains how Stonehenge works as he proves it is a calendar

The monument is even capable of tracking leap years

The Independent UK

Pillars of the community: Is the mystery of Stonehenge really that complicated?

Some believe it to be an astronomical calculator, others say it’s a landing pad for aliens. Farah Nayeri looks at recent discoveries to see if we’re any closer to knowing why the ancient monument was built

Evening Standard

The World of Stonehenge: the best cosmic homeware buys inspired by new British Museum exhibition

Inspired by the opening of the new Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum, the suns and stars have aligned with our celestial interiors edit.

The Guardian - UK

‘Every year it astounds us’: the Orkney dig uncovering Britain’s stone age culture

Archaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artefacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition

The Guardian - UK

The World of Stonehenge review – even the stone axes amaze

British Museum, LondonThis fiercely emotional exhibition venerates the people of ancient Britain, uncovering a mystical landscape of gods and kings

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Prehistoric drum is top ancient find, says British Museum

LONDON: A carved stone drum unearthed in England is one of the most significant pieces of prehistoric art ever found in the country, the British Museum said on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

Stonehenge tops bucket list of places in the UK you need to see before you die

Stonehenge took the top spot in a bucket list survey, beating the view from Newcastle’s Tyne Bridge and Brighton’s Royal Pavilion. Our other favourite sights include Cheddar Gorge and the London Eye

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