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 ...

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research ...

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

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument thought to have been built by the Neolithics over 5,000 years ago. ... People celebrate the sun rising at Newgrange, Co Meath, on the morning of the winter ...

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.