Skara Brae's remarkable survival through the ages is thanks to the design of the original builders who buried the stone-slab walls up to roof level in clay soil and waste material in order to ...

But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation ... The researchers found ten flagstone houses built deep into the ground.

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There is a large section of people around us who believe that ancient humans have been contacted by aliens. According to the proponents of such theories, the relics of several unexplained ancient ...

In other words, not a bad place for photography. Skara Brae. Stone Age folk were living in this village long before Stonehenge was built. Preserved by drifting sands for nearly 5,000 years it was ...

It's a freshwater loch where the people of Skara Brae could have caught trout and eels. Most Neolithic people built houses with wooden frames. But on the Orkney Islands, there aren't many trees.