is many times bigger than the largest megaliths at Stonehenge, the most famous Neolithic wonder. Embedded in the ground on a hilltop that rises about 50 meters (165 feet) above the surrounding ...

In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...

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

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 ...

6. Farmers may have been among the first megalith creators During the Neolithic period, people were coming to Britain from continental Europe with the first domestic crops but also bringing ...

Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...

The ASI team discovered ancient burial sites dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age. They counted more than 110 megaliths—think cists (stone-built coffin-like boxes), stone circles ...

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