Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’

Religious site contains burial mound serving as a solar calendar as well as remains of about 60 people

Dutch archaeologists have unearthed an approximately 4,000-year-old religious site - nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands" - that includes a burial mound that served as a solar calendar.

The mound, which contained the remains of about 60 men, women and children, had several passages through which the sun shone directly on the longest and shortest days of the year.