In 2023, a minor cultural scandal hit Carnac, northwest France. Mr. Bricolage, a home improvement chain, was opening up in the town, but to do so it had cleared away a field of ancient stones ...

Apart from the Carnac alignments, Brittany is home to several other stone rows or alignments. The Carnac alignments, with their enigmatic charm, have long been a source of fascination.

Built 1,000 years before the famed English site, the Alignements de Carnac's 3,000 perfectly aligned stones continue to baffle historians. Not far from the wide, sun-drenched beaches of Carnac in ...

Built 1,000 years before the famed English site, the Alignements de Carnac's 3,000 perfectly aligned stones continue to baffle historians. Not far from the wide, sun-drenched beaches of Carnac in ...

This aerial picture taken on August 4, 2019 shows the Carnac standing stones, a collection of Neolithic stones at a site in the city of Carnac, western France. Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images.

French far-right politician Éric Zemmour tweeted on Thursday that ancient stones had been “massacred.”. Carnac, in the Brittany region, is known for grand fields of megaliths, some 3,000 of ...

Before Gizeh rose above the Egyptian horizon, Carnac was already drawing its stone lines on the Armorican landscape. Nearly 3,000 menhirs stretch for almost 4 km, from Le Ménec to Kerlescan.

France's giant but little-known prehistoric monument built 1,000 years before Stonehenge The megalith is made up of thousands of stones and is among the most accurate such structures found ...