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The sun was starting to set over Skara Brae, a prehistoric stone village on the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the most northerly tip of Scotland. A lone figure stood alone among the 3,000 ...

If there were such a thing as a time machine that we could use to journey 5,000 years into the past, we would find a very different world to the one we live in today. The map of Europe would probably ...

The 50th Anniversary Season of the Archaeological Institute of America, Houston Society continues its Sankofa year - revealing how the past impacts the future - with a lecture by Martin Carruthers on ...

Occupied between 3200 and 2500 BCE, Skara Brae in Orkney, Scotland, is Europe’s most complete Neolithic village. Preserved under sand for 4,000 years, it still contains stone houses, furniture, and ...

Dating to 3350 BCE, the Stones of Stenness on Orkney are the UK’s oldest known henge monument. Once surrounded by a water-filled ditch, with links to Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar, the site ...