A vast prehistoric settlement hidden in the hills of County Wicklow is forcing archaeologists to rethink how people lived in Ireland more than 2,700 years ago. What began as a closer look at a single ...

Archaeologists in Ireland have identified what they describe as the largest clustered prehistoric village ever found in Britain and Ireland, a hilltop community whose scale and planning overturn ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what could be the largest cluster of houses ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland. Until now, the largest cluster of ancient settlements ...

A County Wicklow hillfort has been declared the largest, nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain by ...

Researchers have found that a prehistoric burial site called Flagstones is one of the earliest known large circular enclosures in Britain. Located in Dorset, Flagstones dates to around 3200 B.C.E., ...

Hand out image from Queen’s University Belfast of 1. Photogrammetry map of location of roundhouse footprints at Brusselstown Ring. A hillfort in Co Wicklow has been declared the "largest nucleated ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — The United Nations’ cultural ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England ...

In the 1970s, archaeologists unearthed prehistoric human remains from a deep underground shaft in Somerset, England. The truth of what really happened to those men, women, and children, however, has ...

The site in the Wicklow mountains is also Ireland’s earliest proto-town according to Queen’s University Belfast researchers.

LONDON (AP) — The United Nations’ cultural agency rejected recommendations Wednesday to place Stonehenge on the list of endangered world heritage sites over concerns that Britain’s plans to build a ...