Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic period, more than 4000 years ago. We do not know what they were for or how they ...

Archaeologists in Scotland shed “genuine tears” upon ... The team unexpectedly found the 5.5-foot-long (1.7 meters) carved ...

You can go inside the stone chamber and see Viking graffiti carved on the ancient walls ... the body of water that separates mainland Scotland from the islands. Puffins sat up on waves and ...

They are among the most mysterious artefacts which have come down from Scotland’s dim and distant past. Carved stone balls which have been shaped by the hands of master masons in the late ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

Hunting animal scene on carved Celtic Pictish stone, Shandwick, Easter Ross. When they weren’t fighting the Romans – or each other – the Scottish tribes spent most of their time farming and ...

Graffiti carved on ancient standing stones on the island of Arran is a heritage crime, Historic Environment Scotland has said. Staff from Scotland's heritage agency found the markings at Machrie ...

From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around ... known evidence for an idea that has held sway in the Scottish Highlands for at least 1,500 years—that Loch Ness is home ...

National Galleries of Scotland are celebrating the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), The remarkable Scottish ...