LONDON (AP) — Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year Saturday at the ancient Stonehenge monument.

The reason the celebrations at Stonehenge are on Wednesday is because it is the dawn of the day when the days start to lengthen again. Winter Solstice is not the shortest day of the year - it is ...

Timelapse footage on Saturday morning shows how people gathered at Stonehenge, in Wiltshire to mark the annual winter solstice. The winter solstice is the 24-hour period with the fewest hours of ...

Thousands of people greeted the dawn with cheers and applause at Stonehenge as they marked the winter solstice. Those who observed the spectacle on Saturday at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire ...

Was Stonehenge used to predict eclipses? Previous claims have assumed a high degree of sophistication on the part of the builders of Stonehenge, and that the number of Aubrey holes (56 ...

LONDON (AP) — It's that time of year when crowds of pagans, druids, hippies and tourists head to Stonehenge in Britain to celebrate the winter solstice, with the shortest day and the longest ...

Chris Smith, 31, who had come to Stonehenge for the winter solstice for the first time, said he was there because of the “spiritual draw of the area”. He said: “This is all about renewal, rebirth, ...