Hidden beneath sand for 4,000 years, Skara Brae is Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic village. Built before Stonehenge, its stone beds, dressers, and drains reveal how prehistoric families lived on ...

Archaeologists at Ness of Brodgar in Orkney have uncovered two examples of Neolithic pottery - discoveries that could offer ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is renowned for its remarkably well-preserved monuments. Many of these are ...

More than a dozen human remains were found inside a 5,000-year-old tomb in Scotland. At least 14 sets of human remains were uncovered during an excavation on the Orkney Islands. Video shows ...

Archaeologists at the Ness of Brodgar ceremonial center in Scotland have discovered two pieces of wood dated to the Neolithic era, reports Craig Munro for the Press and Journal. Found in two postholes ...

The Scottish Orkney islands experienced a wave of immigration during the Bronze Age so large that it replaced most of the local population, ancient DNA analysis has revealed. Experts say that unlike ...

INVERNESS, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that erosion on the island of Orkney at the northern end of the Bay of Skaill has exposed deer antlers, a boar tooth, a cattle jawbone, and a large stone ...

Predating Stonehenge by centuries, the Stones of Stenness form Britain’s earliest henge monument. Built around 3,300 BCE, the ...

The sun was starting to set over Skara Brae, a prehistoric stone village on the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the most northerly tip of Scotland. A lone figure stood alone among the 3,000 ...

Orkney is an island chain situated off Scotland's northeastern coast, around 10 miles north of Caithness on the mainland. It ...

Orkney experienced a wave of immigration during the Bronze Age so large that it replaced most of the local population, ancient DNA analysis has revealed. Experts say that unlike anywhere else, the ...