There is a large section of people around us who believe that ancient ... in modern-day Scotland. Located on the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney archipelago, Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic ...

You can go inside the stone chamber and see Viking graffiti carved on the ancient walls—a dragon ... the body of water that separates mainland Scotland from the islands. Puffins sat up on ...

In northeastern Scotland, stone circles are related not to the Sun ... Setting foot in the center of the circle, surrounded by unspeakably ancient boulders, was deeply unsettling.

Traditional stone-lifting has a rich history, with legendary rocks located ... chalked up multiple stone-lifts in his home country of Scotland. And the pursuit has long been a staple in ...

This is the lower left hand corner of a Roman commemorative stone. Professor Lawrence Keppie of the Hunterian Museum thinks that there may have been some decoration on the missing part.

It also means that the ancient monument ... how was the Altar Stone transported from the very north of Scotland, a distance of more than 700 kilometres, to Stonehenge, and, more intriguing ...

In 1814 a farmer tried to remove the ancient stones so he could more easily tend ... from as far afield as the Isle of Arran in western Scotland, and high-quality flints from across the ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

The Stone of Destiny was moved to its new home at Perth Museum last year, where it sits as the centrepiece of an exhibition on Scotland’s history. When Charles was coronated in 2023 it was taken ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

Traditional stone-lifting has a rich history, with legendary rocks located everywhere ... coach and YouTuber Fergus Crawley has chalked up multiple stone-lifts in his home country of Scotland. And the ...