Stonehenge Guided Tours

The astonishing result comes from analysis of DNA extracted from 400 ancient remains across Europe.

The builders of Stonehenge are thought to be the last of Britain’s neolithic people

Stonehenge has a proud place in Britain’s history as one of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe.

But, according to a major new study, modern-day Britons are barely related to the ingenious Neolithic farmers who built the monument 5,000 years ago.

Instead the British are related to the ‘Beaker people’ who travelled from modern-day Holland and all but wiped out Stonehenge’s creators.

The findings are ‘absolutely sort of mind-blowing,’ said archaeologist Barry Cunliffe, a professor emeritus at the University of Oxford.

‘They are going to upset people, but that is part of the excitement of it.