The stone age lasted for over 2,5 million years and only ended 4.000 years ago. In this series the focus is on the Neolithic ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5500 years ago.

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within the region’s prehistoric ruling dynasties. But new research suggests that ...

The tomb is 5,200 years old - older than the Great Pyramid of Giza - and is also renowned for a winter solstice phenomenon ...

Reports of Neolithic Irish god-kings, descended through an incest-practicing social elite, are lacking in evidence, say a ...

Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

New research has cast doubt on suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the people who built Newgrange 5,000 years ...

Newgrange in County Meath. (Ireland's Content Pool) After Christianity came to Ireland with Saint Patrick in the 400s, Meath became home to a number of important monasteries, ...

U nlike ancient Egypt, Hawai’i, or the Inca Empire, Neolithic Ireland probably wasn’t governed by a dynasty of demi-gods who ...

FOR the third year running people protested at Newgrange, Co Meath, on the Winter Solstice at the weekend over the threat from a waste incinerator plant being built near the world-famous heritage ...

The 5,000-year-old tomb was once thought to be the preserve of high society but new research suggests that's not the case.