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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, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...
The tomb is 5,200 years old - older than the Great Pyramid of Giza - and is also renowned for a winter solstice phenomenon ...
New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...
Newgrange is part of a complex of monuments built along a bend of the River Boyne known collectively in the Irish language as Brú na Bóinne and the sites are managed by Ireland's Office of ...
A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.
It has long been believed that burial at the Newgrange tomb was the preserve of kings and other dignitaries Kevin Sharkey BBC News NI Dublin reporter ...
Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...
The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...