Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people yearning for the promise of spring have marked the dawn of the shortest day ...

Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to see the winter solstice sunrise. From 21 December, the shortest day of the ...

About 15,000 revelers witnessed an ancient solstice sunrise alignment on Saturday morning at Stonehenge, the U.K.’s most ...

It’s that time of year when crowds of pagans, druids, hippies and tourists head to Stonehenge in Britain to celebrate the ...

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 ...

Thousands of people gather at the ancient English monument of Stonehenge to greet sunrise on winter solstice, the northern hemisphere's shortest day of the year.

Crowds of people gathered to celebrate the winter solstice at Britain's Stonehenge, on Saturday (December 21). What's next ...

Humans have been celebrating the winter solstice for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations built landmarks like Stonehenge in England and Torreon at Machu Picchu, Peru, to track the sun's ...

As the first rays of sunlight pierced through the frosty morning sky, thousands of people gathered at the iconic Stone ...

FILE - Druid leader Arthur Uther Pendragon, center, holds up his staff as he takes part in a Winter Solstice ceremony by the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in southern England, Dec. 21 ...

No one could see the sun through the low winter ... until the summer solstice in June. The solstices are the only occasions when visitors can go right up to the stones at Stonehenge, and thousands ...

The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. Stonehenge was erected starting about 5,000 years ago by a sun-worshiping Neolithic culture.