The National Museum of Ireland recently received a mysterious package in the mail from an anonymous sender — and opened it to find two ax heads that date to between 2150 and 2000 B.C.E. The donor ...

Archaeologists recently discovered multiple prehistoric monuments in the South East of Ireland. This discovery ... in the ...

Ireland, Spain and the Mediterranean. And a growing body of evidence now suggests that, at the heart of this Bronze Age international trade, lay Sardinia's mysterious Nuragic civilization.

and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall and Northern Ireland. Mined flint is of better quality than surface flint. Mines are known in ...

An amateur archaeologist recently encouraged researchers to take another look at the Farley Moor standing stone, which was once part of a bigger ceremonial site ...

The 2m (6.6ft) tall standing stone was previously believed to be an isolated monument A forestry agency has said plans for a woodland holiday park will not be affected by the discovery of a ...

Ireland is dotted with these old structures that date from the Mesolithic Period through the Neolithic Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Medieval times. What's common to many of the most famous of ...