New research into ancient DNA shows that Newgrange's tombs were not just the burial places for the elites of Neolithic Irish society ...

“Traditionally, it has been considered that large passage tombs like Newgrange were the burial places of special or important ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...

A new DNA research challenges the myth of elite burials in Ireland, revealing a complex, community-driven story behind ...

The researcher say their findings ‘deconstructs the myth that only important individuals were socially active’.

Cairn K -- Part of a 5000 years-old Passage Tomb Complex at Carrowkeel in County Sligo in the north-west of Ireland. This site is one of the most impressive Neolithic ritual landscapes in Europe ...

The entrance into Newgrange passage tomb mound. Derick P ... and had children with each other throughout the Irish Neolithic period, regardless of how they buried their dead.

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society ... This is the period when the Newgrange-style passage tombs were emerging.