On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an ...

including the slightly later Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and Maeshowe tomb. There is also a multi-phase prehistoric settlement at Links of ...

Tomb Raider has a chartered history, with Lara Croft delving into ruins and tombs all over the world. Overcoming any and all obstacles set in her path, Lara has elevated herself into an exclusive ...

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.

including three simple types used in the earlier part of the Neolithic and a fourth type called the "developed passage tomb" that originated around 3300 B.C. Passage tombs consisted of a large ...

Aspero, the area in the Caral site where the tomb was found, was formerly used as a municipal dump. "This is an important burial because it has elements that correspond to a woman of high status ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society ... than with people who used other tomb types for their funerary rites.

Archaeologists found a new pharaoh's tomb at Anubis Mountain in Egypt. The tomb is from the mysterious Abydos Dynasty of warrior kings in a chaotic historical era. The pharaoh's identity is a ...

Archaeological crews working in the Saqqara necropolis discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-If-Re from 4,000 years ago. The tomb featured a 14-foot-tall pink granite ...

Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of an unknown pharaoh beneath around 20 feet of sand at the Abydos archaeological site. The discovery of the tomb of an ancient pharaoh ...