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 ...

But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation, researchers still don’t know why it was abandoned. Before its discovery, Skara Brae was nothing more than a sandy, grassy mound in the Orkney ...

Skara Brae is considered the best preserved Neolithic ... with the animal perhaps used for rituals rather than food, it is understood. The Bay of Skaill is now under close observation from the ...

Skara Brae is a prehistoric village that was in use between roughly 3100 B.C. and 2500 B.C. Located on the west coast of the main island of Orkney, in Scotland, what makes the site special is its ...

Nestled in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Skara Brae is a prehistoric village that has intrigued archaeologists and historians for generations. Built over 5,000 years ago, it predates even the ...

It wasn’t man, but rather an apocalyptic storm in 1850 that exposed the Orkneys’ most significant Neolithic site, Skara Brae, also known as the Scottish Pompeii. The name is a corruption of an ...

The sun was starting to set over Skara Brae, a prehistoric stone village on the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the most northerly tip of Scotland. A lone figure stood alone among the 3,000 ...

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 ...