Ireland’s megalithic tombs might not have been built for the purpose that we once believed. Megalithic tombs were constructed during the Neolithic period, which lasted from approximately 3750 BC to ...

The Loughcrew Cairns are megalithic structures similar to others scattered throughout the Boyne Valley and other areas of Ireland. They contain symbolic engravings, and like other cairns in Ireland, ...

In 2020 an Irish geneticist, who uncovered the oldest case of Down Syndrome in the world at a Megalithic tomb in Ireland, said that her discovery offered "a little glimpse" into Ireland's ancient past ...

From simple rock arches to Stonehenge, tens of thousands of imposing stone structures dot Europe’s landscapes. The origins of these megaliths have long been controversial. A new study suggests that ...

The stones have stood silently for thousands of years, arranged in rows and circles or balanced atop one another, often oriented to face the rising sun. Some 35,000 symbolic arrangements with similar ...

PROF. GORDON CHILDE‘S present ideas on the Megalithic tombs in Scotland and Ireland are put on record in a paper read before the Glasgow Archaeological Society (Trans., 11; 1947). Recent discoveries ...

ROSTELLAN, IRELAND—A new study of a stone structure in southern Ireland’s Cork Harbor suggests that it is a megalithic dolmen, and not a nineteenth-century folly connected to Rostellan Castle, as had ...

Ireland’s megalithic tombs might not have been burial grounds for elite dynasties, as some thought, but rather places of community bonding. In 2020, researchers found genetic links among dozens of ...