In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of modern-day Scotland—erected ... a land of plenty for Neolithic homesteaders.

One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic ...

The Ring of Brodgar is part of the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney" alongside Skara Brae Neolithic ... Ewan Hyslop from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) said: "Climate change poses a number of ...

On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...

In Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times burials were ... Midhowe: An example of a stalled cairn, from the Orkney Isles, off the north coast of Scotland. A long central passage was divided into burial ...

to the Neolithic era when early settlers first called these islands home. This rich past came alive in the Smithsonian Channel's documentary Aerial Britain: Scotland, which highlighted Orkney's ...

Orkney is a cluster of 70 islands located just 10 miles off the northern coastline of Scotland ... car rental are the best options to visit the Neolithic sites, such as the Ring of Brodgar ...

Ness of Brodgar Trust/UHI The Ness of Brodgar is an archaeological excavation covering an area in the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. It is described as a sophisticated complex of monumental ...