A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

Archaeologists have long debated who was buried in these megalithic monuments and whether the tombs served other purposes, such as rituals, ceremonies, or displays. The prevailing view was that these ...

Modules focus on different periods of World, European and Irish/British archaeology, from human origins to modern times ... the application and transferability of geospatial technologies to ...

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

At the site of the Old Petty Championship Golf Course under development at Cabot near Inverness, in the Highlands, excavators ...

Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century monastery near Downpatrick, County Down, that was destroyed ...

Volunteers are being sought to take part in an archaeological excavation at one of the oldest parts of Sligo town in the ...

In the recent past in rural Ireland, many ringforts were associated with fairy activity and supernatural happenings ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

County Roscommon, in the province of Connaught, is home to many historical and archaeological sites and is known for ... Roscommon comes from ‘Ros’ and Irish word meaning wooded, gentle ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...