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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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