Newgrange in County Meath was built around 3400 BCE, making it older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza, and it remains one of the oldest surviving buildings in the world. The huge passage tomb ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs were ...

Members of the ancient Irish elite practiced first-degree incest, archaeologists and geneticists analyzing genetic material from a series of Neolithic tombs have discovered. Members of the ancient ...

Burial at an ancient Irish passage tomb in County Meath may not have been confined to the social elite, according to a new research paper. It has long been believed that burial at the Newgrange tomb ...

New research cast doubts over suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland, 5500 years ago. A paper led by researchers from University College Dublin, in ...

A newly published paper questions the belief that burial within the ‘mega’ passage tomb of Newgrange in Co Meath was the preserve of kings and other dignitaries, who represented a dynasty that ...

Well, its not like most of Europe's monarchies haven't continued to interbreed for centuries for much the same reasons (although not quite to that incestuous degree)! The whole site at Newgrange (and ...

The 2023 Winter Solstice sunrise will be live streamed from inside the passage tomb at Newgrange in Co Meath on Thursday, December 21, courtesy of Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW). People across ...