The protesters also targeted the British government’s controversial plan to build a road near the Stonehenge site.
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A Tunnel Threatens Stonehenge’s UNESCO World Heritage Status
UNESCO recently put further pressure on the UK government to address concerns about the controversial plan.
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Controversial $2 Billion Tunnel Near Stonehenge Approved, Causing Backlash
The tunnel will expand the nearby single-lane road to aid traffic, but critics say the project could put the prehistoric site at risk.
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For First Time Ever There Will be a Concert at Stonehenge
DJ Paul Oakenfold set to become the first-ever artist to perform at the historic site in England.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an SFMOMA café started selling half-baked copies of art-themed desserts, torch-carrying protesters raided Stonehenge, and cops got in trouble for a making a sand sculpture of a nude murder victim.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: people pillaged stones from the quarry where Stonehenge’s giant rocks were sourced, the certificate of authenticity of a Lee Ufan painting recently sold at auction was found to be fake, and a curator bit a fellow passenger on an airplane.
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Jeremy Deller’s Indelibly British Brand of Anti-Capitalist Pop
MEXICO CITY — Although presented as a series of discrete events across time, history is written every day through humanity’s incessant production of time-sensitive ephemera that define the aesthetics, sounds, and languages of our epoch.
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Archaeologists Find Huge Stone Formation Near Stonehenge
Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have discovered an enormous stone formation just a mile from Stonehenge that makes the famous circle of sandstone slabs seem puny by comparison.
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Archeologists Use Digital Underground Mapping to Discover the Landscape of Stonehenge
A massive experiment in virtual archeology has led to the mapping of 3,000 acres around Stonehenge, and with it the discovery of a host of new information about the area, including over a dozen previously unknown monuments, National Geographic reported.