In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labeled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically ...

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

It was assumed for a long time that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. However, a new DNA analysis of 55 ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

Archaeologists have identified four different types of ancient tombs in Ireland, including three simple types used in the early Neolithic and a fourth type called "developed passage graves" that ...

“Traditionally, it has been considered that large passage tombs like Newgrange were the burial places of special or important ...

The remains of 1,000 massive stone burial sites, mainly from the Neolithic period, are scattered across Ireland. Most of these marvelous structures are over 5,000 years old. They were built out of ...

The Minister for Heritage has announced that the Historic Astronomical Observatories of Ireland have been added to the World ...

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

In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people built "megalithic monuments" — large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains.