They were a people who conquered much of the known world, creating an empire that stretched from Britain to the shores of the Dead Sea.

The monument was built during a period of immigration from mainland Europe, and it may been intended to unify communities ...

High on a limestone cliff in the north west Highlands are caves that ... the remains of other animals that are long extinct in Scotland such as lemming, wild horses, lynx and wolf.

New research has provided further insights into ancient valleys that lie ... Wales and the North Sea, but those in Scotland are less well understood. The new study by British Geological Survey ...

A new project aims to uncover more details about ancient stone monuments believed ... and similar types in north-west France. In Scotland, they appeared around the time when the prehistoric ...

Unlike Sun-focused Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments, Tomnaverie and similar stone circles hint at the Moon's importance to ancient people ... from north to south or vice versa.

They are the graves of the ancient people of Scotland, whose mysteries have been lost to the mists of time. Great stone structures older than stonehenge, which were once the tombs of the first ...

Researchers have been focusing on the six-tonne altar stone at the centre of the Wiltshire landmark, which was recently ...

STONEHENGE was likely built to unify ancient peoples from across Britain, archaeologists have concluded in a fresh study.