There aren’t many things as magnificent and mesmerizing as the neolithic constructions on the Islands of Orkney. When walking ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of ...

Skara Brae was inhabited before the Egyptian Pyramids were built and had flourished for centuries before construction began ...

Nestled between two lakes on the remote Orkney archipelago in Scotland, the site known as the Ness of Brodgar contains a succession of Neolithic stone buildings spanning 1,000 years—and was ...

The Ness lies just south-east of the Ring of Brodgar, the neolithic stone circle which can be seen as Orkney's version of Stonehenge. Since 2004, excavations at the three hectare site have so far ...

The Ness lies just south-east of the Ring of Brodgar, the neolithic stone circle which can be seen as Orkney's version of Stonehenge. Since 2004, excavations at the three hectare site have so far ...

Neolithic buildings in Orkney see light of day again Close. Archaeologists have reopened a major ancient settlement in Orkney after Covid-19 stopped work on the site for three years.

The "incredibly rare" tomb, which is from the Neolithic era, was largely destroyed without record in the 19th century, according to the museum. Only 12 of such tombs have been found in Orkney.

That’s because the Neolithic people who transported the six-tonne rock from northern Scotland or Orkney to southern England must have known that Stonehenge existed, that it was being expanded, and ...

A long weekend in Orkney. Remote it may be, but travellers who venture to this windswept archipelago are rewarded with prehistoric sites, seabirds and rugged splendour.

A Neolithic Orkney burial cairn is to stay open to the public thanks to a shuttle bus service aimed at addressing road safety concerns. Concerns had been raised over the car park at Maeshowe ...

It sounds like the cruellest of tasks. Spend twenty years digging in the dirt of a narrow, wind-battered strip of land between two lochs. Then go and fill it all in again. But this is exactly what's ...