Ancient bones from an Irish 'god-king' are neither god nor king, and are not evidence of a royal family, a new study suggests ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

The stone age lasted for over 2,5 million years and only ended 4.000 years ago. In this series the focus is on the Neolithic ...

In 2020, archaeologists in Ireland first announced a startling find at Newgrange, a giant Neolithic burial chamber 30 miles ...

Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

The tomb is 5,200 years old - older than the Great Pyramid of Giza - and is also renowned for a winter solstice phenomenon ...

A new €4.5m state-of-the-art visitor experience has opened at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre, the entry point for the renowned Neolithic Passage Tomb complexes at Newgrange and Knowth.

The 5,000-year-old tomb was once thought to be the preserve of high society but new research suggests that's not the case.