Stone Age

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

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Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. (Photo by Richard Fairless/Getty Images)

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Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

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10,000 BC participants in their Mesolithic-style camp. (Channel 5)

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Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

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