People gather to celebrate the winter solstice in Newgrange, Ireland on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, with dancing, singing and more. The crowd gathered at a Stone Age monument in the Boyne Valley that ...

Happy Winter Solstice! This year, the traditional pagan holiday fell on Dec. 21, 2023, for the United States, and Dec. 22, 2023, for Europe. Considered to be the longest night of the year, the days ...

In Ireland’s Boyne Valley, archaeologists uncovered a burial site that may predate the iconic Newgrange passage tomb. The discovery reshapes what we know about prehistoric Europe ...

One of the interior passages of the 5,000-year-old Irish megalithic tomb of Newgrange. In this photo, sunlight enters the monument's main chamber at dawn on the winter solstice. Ken Williams The grass ...

The ancient DNA of a man buried in a monumental Stone Age tomb in Ireland revealed he was born of incest 5,000 years ago. But this fact doesn't mean he was a "god-king" as previously claimed, ...

Compared to the vast crowds of druids and pagans expected to gather at Stonehenge on Saturday 21 December to celebrate the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice event at Newgrange tomb in ...

Ireland’s Office of Public Works (OPW) confirmed on December 3 that the annual Winter Solstice gathering at Newgrange in Co Meath will not be open to the public this year due to the pandemic. The ...

A man buried in the inner chamber of Newgrange Passage tomb was the product of a union between siblings, according to ancient DNA analysis. He was also more distantly related to people buried at ...

The annual Winter Solstice event at Newgrange in Co Meath is going to be streamed virtually this year tomorrow, Monday, December 21 and Tuesday, December 22 and you can tune in to watch right here on ...

Well, its not like most of Europe's monarchies haven't continued to interbreed for centuries for much the same reasons (although not quite to that incestuous degree)! The whole site at Newgrange (and ...