The stone age lasted for over 2,5 million years and only ended 4.000 years ago. In this series the focus is on the Neolithic ...

In 2020, archaeologists in Ireland first announced a startling find at Newgrange, a giant Neolithic burial chamber 30 miles ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

Reports of Neolithic Irish god-kings, descended through an incest-practicing social elite, are lacking in evidence, say a ...

The tomb is 5,200 years old - older than the Great Pyramid of Giza - and is also renowned for a winter solstice phenomenon ...

Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

U nlike ancient Egypt, Hawai’i, or the Inca Empire, Neolithic Ireland probably wasn’t governed by a dynasty of demi-gods who ...

DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research ...

Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as previously thought, a team of ...

Discovery of Newgrange . Newgrange, central to our understanding of Ireland’s ancient past, was only rediscovered in the 1690s.The Dublin Philosophical Society, embracing new scientific methods ...