The Carnac alignments* were erected in the Neolithic era, between the fifth and third millenia B.C., by sedentarised communities who raised livestock and farmed.

France’s Stonehenge in Brittany Joins the UNESCO World Heritage List The Megaliths of Carnac and the Shores of Morbihan have become the first site in Brittany to be added to the UNESCO World …

At Carnac, the centre of the megalithic monuments and an important watering-place, two comfortable hotels await tourists who having visited the church, the fountain, and especially the Musée J. Miln, …

• Enigmatic chambered tombs such as West Kennet Long Barrow. • Carnac, with more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, the world’s largest collection of megalithic monuments. • The uninhabited …

At the two large lunar observatories in Carnac a different method was used: the observers looked inwards to a common foresight consisting in each case of a huge menhir. We suggest that of these …

Dans le Morbihan, plus de 550 sites mégalithiques ont été recensés. Vieux de 7000 ans, le site mégalithique de Carnac, le plus célèbre de la région, demeure un haut lieu de la préhistoire …

Carnac was an “omniscient soothsayer” who could “divine the answers to questions that were hermetically sealed in envelopes.” Carnac would hold the envelope up to his forehead, then give the …