Knowth is one of the greatest monuments of Neolithic Europe, situated in the Boyne valley. The area of Brú na Bóinne has been ...

Across the middle of Ireland there’s a line of passage tombs going from Knocknarea in county Sligo in the west to the Boyne Valley tombs in county Meath in the east. The neolithic burial practices ...

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

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

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

The archaeological team found no evidence supporting the existence of hereditary power or shared ancestry at the site ...

A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.

Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as previously thought, a team of ...

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

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

Newgrange is a massive circular passage tomb built more than 5,000 years ago in the Boyne Valley (County Meath) in Ireland, thus older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza. Its rediscovery in 1699 ...

New research has cast doubt over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more ...