Jessica Smyth receives funding from Research Ireland (Consolidator Laureate IRCLA/2017/206 'Passage Tomb People ... were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

The internationally famous Neolithic chambered cairn at Isbister, known as the Tomb of the Eagles, occupies a spectacular clifftop location in the South Parish of South Ronaldsay. The 5,000+ year-old ...

Unearthed during ongoing excavations of the tomb just outside the Porto Sarno entrance gates of the dead city, the statue of the woman is slightly taller than that of the man by her side.

So far, so good. Draw closer, though, and burrowing underneath that mound is a 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, older than the pyramids by around 1,500 years, its passage aligned with the rays of ...

As an anthropologist and archaeologist at the University of Tennessee, Alex Bentley usually spend his time studying neolithic farming villages. But in the early days of the pandemic, he decided to ...