Last month it was revealed the iconic stone came from north-east Scotland and not Wales, like the monument's bluestones do. Orkney has its famous Neolithic sites with standing stones, like the ...

Also in Orkney, the large flat stones of Stenness ... is well known – but researchers now believe that the earliest standing stone monuments were constructed specifically in line with the ...

But Orkney's trump card is history ... Marching like giants, the stones standing on this great henge were erected 4,500 years ago, part of a huge Neolithic spiritual world still mysterious ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of ...

Orkney Island north of Scotland's mainland is a typical example ... The Los Menhires Archaeological Park in Tucuman province of Argentina is home to around 50 menhirs (standing stones). These stones ...

Updated on November 3, 2024, by Gerardo Molina: Standing Stones in Skyrim sound great on paper, and while they are too in action, there's one particular thing about them that can be a bit annoying ...

Kidney stones are hard objects made from chemicals in your pee. They may be as tiny as a grain of salt or as big as a corn kernel. The stones can be brown or yellow, smooth or rough. They're a ...

May 2026 - 12 days Discover early human civilisations and fascinating wildlife amongst the wild isles of Scotland aboard the ...

The goal? To build a 20 foot (6 meter) and 213 ft (65 m) long dry-stone wall as part of a park where the landscape was digitally planned, and the earth autonomously excavated. The coolest thing ...

The quest for the origins of Stonehenge's six-tonne Altar Stone continues as new research has found it did not come from mainland Orkney. Last month it was revealed the iconic stone came from ...