Ireland’s Lia Fail Standing Stone, also known as the “Stone of Destiny,”  has been vandalized. The 5,500-year-old monument, which sits on the Hill of Tara, was hit with a hammer, causing damage in a total of 11 places on all four granite faces. None of the fragments were found. Tradition holds that the High Kings […]

A longhouse whose foundations were made from entire tree trunks has been discovered in Monmouth, Wales. The structure, which had been placed on top of stones that had been heated and doused with water, perhaps as a type of sauna, sat next to a lake that silted up long ago. “We think it could be from […]