As the quest to find the origins of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone heats up, researchers rule out one Scottish site that appeared ...

Might the altar stone have been acquired in the same way? We now know that it must have come from an area of north-east Scotland. Orkney is at the centre of that area. The Ring of Brodgar on the main ...

The Standing Stones of Stenness (pictured here), are ... For a complete history of the Orkney Islands, visit the Orkney ...

Dr Thomas added that another archaeologist, Prof Richard Bradley, had suggested ... of Brodgar standing stones. The dig is being led by the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology ...

Standing Stones of Stenness are also part of the world heritage site in Orkney Skara Brae is just part of the World Heritage site on Orkney which also consists of the chambered tomb of Maeshowe ...

The place is Orkney. Seventy islands (20 inhabited ... Marching like giants, the stones standing on this great henge were erected 4,500 years ago, part of a huge Neolithic spiritual world still ...

At the Ring of Brodgar on the Orkney Islands, if you clap your hands or ... but researchers now believe that the earliest standing stone monuments were constructed specifically in line with ...

Half man, half seal, selkies are part of the mythology of Orkney ... built around 2700 BC and once had a stone tiled roof, richly coloured slabs (painted red, yellow and brown) and ritual artefacts.

The Menhir (standing stone) of Meada is the largest in the Iberian Peninsula ... of megalithic structures in the world and some of them are found in Scotland. Orkney Island north of Scotland's ...

The Latin tag abi tu, et fac similiter—go, thou, and do likewise—was widely encountered in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is ...

A geologic team, including many of the same authors of the Nature study, examined Neolithic-age stones at two well-known historic landmarks on Mainland, Orkney’s largest island, that were ...