{"id":4744,"date":"2026-02-09T22:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/scientists-shocked-at-new-stonehenge-discovery-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:29:27","slug":"scientists-shocked-at-new-stonehenge-discovery-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/scientists-shocked-at-new-stonehenge-discovery-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists &#8216;shocked&#8217; at new Stonehenge discovery | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQfrnkCJ-CI?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found.<\/p>\n<p>It means that the stone was brought about 700km (434 miles), from Scotland, to the ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery shows the construction of Stonehenge was a far greater collaborative effort than scientists realised.<\/p>\n<p>It also suggests that Neolithic Britain was a far more connected and advanced society than earlier evidence indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/3T0rlU7<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Stonehenge #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CQfrnkCJ-CI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found. It means that the stone was brought about 700km (434 miles), from Scotland, to the ancient monument, near Salisbury in south-west England. The discovery shows the construction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[356,15,169,1748,565,368,1749,354,1750,496,162],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-india-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news","tag-world","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}