A major attraction of Dorset, England, is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180-foot-tall figure of a naked man wielding a large club carved with chalk into a hilltop. A pair of historians offers a strong ...

The Cerne Giant, otherwise know, as the "Rude Man of Cerne," is an 18-story-high chalk drawing on an English hillside that has long attracted theories about its origin and meaning.

UB faculty expert John Cerne can answer media questions about the physics behind everyday phenomena, from flight to static electricity.

For centuries, the Cerne Giant, a figure carved into a hillside in Dorset, has fascinated locals and visitors to the area. A new paper proposes that the Cerne Giant can in fact be dated to the ...

The Cerne Abbas Giant A mysterious chalk carving of a huge, naked man on an English hillside was made in the 10th century, according to the first attempt to archaeologically date the giant. The ...

Scholars Are One Step Closer to Solving the Mystery of an Enormous Chalk Figure A new analysis of the 180-foot-tall Cerne Abbas Giant dates the English landmark to between 700 and 1100 A.D.

Archaeologists “flabbergasted” to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval "Everyone was wrong, and that makes these results even more exciting." ...

A centuries-old mystery surrounding the origins of a chalk giant hill figure has been unravelled by academics from Oxford University. New research indicates the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset was ...

History of the Cerne Abbas Giant Although researchers now have a better idea when the hill figure was created, there remain many unanswered questions about it.

Residents of a Dorset village have recreated an auction to mark 100 years since the entire area was sold off by one of the county's biggest landowners.

THE ‘Cerne Giant’, it is announced, will come under the auctioneer's hammer on June 16 next when the Abbey estate, Cerne Abbas, near Dorchester, Dorset, is to be sold in lots. The ‘Cerne ...

A WOKE tea towel company has been blasted after it censored the Cerne Abbas Giant. The £14 cotton wipe shows the likeness of the ancient chalk figure on a Dorset hillside – but covers his 36f… ...