Knowth is one of the greatest monuments of Neolithic Europe, situated in the Boyne valley. The area of Brú na Bóinne has been ...

History could stand in the way of scores of new homes planned for multiple sites across East Devon, prompting calls for ...

Roman settlements are among the potential discoveries that could frustrate plans for new homes on a host of sites in East Devon.

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

Old Iron Age souterrain behind my house. Souterrains are a relatively overlooked oddity, both on Raasay and around the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

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

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

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

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...