A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the ...

A rare example of ritual Bronze Age monuments have been discovered on Oileán Acla in Co Mayo. The stone alignment had been ...

The gristly event happened over a short period — possibly within a few days — during the final phase of the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, occupation of the cave, when farming and agriculture became ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs were ...

They were likely “members of a raiding party who were captured and subjected to capital punishment,” the authors write, and ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys. Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first ...

The project is teaming up with the Flow Country UNESCO World Heritage Site to transform Caithness’ tourism offering ...

New archaeological findings have upended our previous beliefs about early human migration with evidence that hunter-gatherers came ashore on the Mediterranean island of Malta about 8,500 years ago.