When ancient Egypt and Ireland are spoken about in the same breath it usually results in the rolling of eyes, polite exits and the sound of murmurs citing pseudo-history and new age babble.At least, that used to be the case. Recent discoveries in DNA research have added to already verified archaeological finds to present a scenario that is now more difficult to dismiss.
Introduction Newgrange is a Passage Grave – a type of Megalithic ( large stone) Tomb consisting of a narrow passage leading to a chamber where human remains were found. Newgrange the largest …
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Different cultural expressions of Heathenry beget different cultural interpretations of (largely) the same core group of deities. Deriving from a common proto-Germanic source, these deities are the…
New discovery is evidence of trade with continental Europe.
Building on vast site at Marden Henge is welcoming public visitors again after thousands of years buried beneath Wiltshire farmland
So far the remains of 14 Stone Age buildings have been excavated, but thermal geophysics technology has revealed that there are 100 altogether.
Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.
What did the ancestors of modern Britons see in the countryside that led them to deem some places more sacred than others, asks Neil Oliver.
The newly found Neolithic monument dates from more than 4,000 years ago, researchers say, adding a new wrinkle to the "super-henge" at Durrington Walls.
Today is the 1097th anniversary of the death of my favourite individual from the Dark Ages. I refer, of course, to the Anglo-Saxon princess Aethelflaed, the Lady of the Mercians. She was the daught…
A new find on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England has set the archaeological world on its head and stoked the fires of imagination for history buffs all
Archaeologists have been excavating a Bronze-Age settlement at the so-called Must Farm site in eastern England.
A treasure trove of artifacts was unearthed in Scotland during the building of the A75 Dunragit bypass, a new road in Wigtownshire, Scotland, back in 2014.
The earliest itineraries of Hadrian’s Wall are the enamelled pans (the Rudge Cup, the Amiens patera, and the Staffordshire Moorlands/Ilam pan) listing the forts at the western end, soon follo…
Archaeologists at the University of Warwick isolated DNA from sediment off the coast of the Isle of Wight and found evidence of wheat dating from 2,000 years before farming arrived in Britain.
