Skara Brae was the home of a Neolithic farming community.The people who lived here were able to grow some crops and they kept cows, sheep and pigs. These animals were their main sources of food ...

(Hauke Koch, via Wikimedia Commons) EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—The Los Angeles Times reports that rodents may have been a source of food at Skara Brae, the Neolithic settlement on the Orkney Islands ...

Frozen in time, abandoned for 4,500 years, and under threat from an eroding coastline, Scotland’s “Pompeii” is the best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Western Europe. But despite Skara ...

Experts have successfully removed all traces of graffiti which had been daubed onto the ancient Skara Brae settlement on Orkney. The vandalism, including the words "Scouse Celts", was found at the ...

When Skara Brae was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, the organization called the village a “center of innovation and experimentation.” It was no hyperbole.