Learn how the sourcing of stone from disparate locations throughout the British Isles may have represented the coming ...

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.

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 ...

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

While it had previously been believed to come from Wales, like many of the stones at the ancient site, it in-fact originated in the far north east of Scotland. The Alter Stone is the largest of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Polar bears once roamed Scotland during the last Ice Age, new analysis of ancient bones and fossils ... bears are found today only in the polar north, researchers say during the peak of the ...