In 2021, researchers found a 5,000-year-old fingerprint during excavations in Orkney, Scotland. The impression was observed on a clay vessel recovered from the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site ...

Indeed, to this day, Orkney beef commands a premium on the market. Last of the great monuments built on the Ness, the Ring of Brodgar has inspired awe for 4,500 years. As Scottish poet George ...

A stone megalith from The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney The discovery – via DNA tests – of five generations of family members buried together in Hazelton long barrow in the Cotswolds reveals the ...

But Orkney's trump card is history ... Here's a short don't-miss list for photographers: Ring of Brodgar. Marching like giants, the stones standing on this great henge were erected 4,500 years ...

The first new broch in two millennia could be “the symbol of Caithness to the world”, those behind it said after lodging ...

In 1999 Skara Brae (along with other Orkney sites Maes Howe and the Ring of Brodgar) were designated as a World Heritage site.

Picture the scene: it’s approaching sunset at Eynhallow Sound, a stretch of sea between Mainland and Rousay. Seals with oily ...

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Wild Music a collaboration between the poet John Burnside and composer Erland Cooper. And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the ...