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 ...

A planning application for the Slane bypass in Co Meath has been approved by An Coimisiún Pleanála. The project will see the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.