It's a freshwater loch where the people of Skara Brae could have caught trout and eels. Most Neolithic people built houses with wooden frames. But on the Orkney Islands, there aren't many trees.

The world heritage status of Orkney's archaeological treasures is threatened by climate change, a report has warned. Rising seas and higher rainfall mean the Heart of Neolithic Orkney site is ...

The well-built homes at Skara Brae, Europe’s most complete Neolithic village ... 3500 B.C.—around the time of the earliest settlement on Orkney—much of the hazel and birch woodland that ...

Scotland’s “Pompeii” is the best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Western Europe. But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate ...

The Ring of Brodgar is part of the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney" alongside Skara Brae Neolithic village International scientists are meeting in Orkney to develop a system for assessing the risks to ...

The Orkneys, an archipelago of islands off the northern coast of Scotland, are home to some of the greatest neolithic treasures in western Europe: from the settlement of Skara Brae to the Ness of ...

Discover the marvelous sites of ancient civilizations from the Neolithic period. These incredible ancient creations are a ...

Pompeii was a prosperous Roman town that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Great Zimbabwe, an abandoned city, was thought to be the capital of a late Iron Age civilization in the 13th ...

There is a large section of people around us who believe that ancient humans have been contacted by aliens. According to the proponents of such theories, the relics of several unexplained ancient ...