Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Imagine walking through a windswept village on the Atlantic coast, where the rolling hills echo with the rhythm of a language ...

If stones could speak, Ireland’s place names would be their voice—a living memory etched across fields, rivers, and mountains ...

The UK’s primary language is of course English, and has been for many hundreds of years. The tongue has evolved as many ...

During the Middle Neolithic, from about 3400 to 2800 BC, builders in Britain and Ireland began moving away from long, rectangular structures like barrows and cursus monuments. They started ...

You bet!). Ireland’s Centenarian Bounty, as it’s called, was begun in 1940 by President Douglas Hyde, who died 11 years shy of being eligible for it himself. Happily, my own five-score ...

Dunseverick Falls, Bushmills A hidden gem on one of the five great highways of ancient Ireland, High Kings Road (Slige Midluachra) had its terminal point at Dunseverick. Marvel at the castle ruins ...

If you are planning to travel to Dublin or any other city in Ireland, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Dublin Airport along with the ...

Newgrange passage tomb. Credit: fhwrdh / CC BY 2.0 A new DNA study is challenging the long-standing myth that Ireland’s ancient passage tombs were reserved for elite burials. At Brú na Bóinne, a World ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

To constitute the most complete digital map to date of the entire known ancient world, from Ireland to India, and with a time range from historical times to late antiquity. With PERIPLUS, users can: ...

The completed map will be launched at a ... is 5pm on August 31. “Here in Ireland we have a wonderful fossil heritage that includes amazing ancient sea creatures and huge ancient forests ...