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Ancient bones from an Irish 'god-king' are neither god nor king, and are not evidence of a royal family, a new study suggests ...
A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.
In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...
DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research ...
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 ...
The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...
New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...
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.
New research has cast doubt on suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the people who built Newgrange 5,000 years ago.