In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

Read more: 25 Gorgeous Islands For Vacationing That Won't Break The Bank Experts believe that the mysterious Calanais Standing Stones were erected as early as B.C. 2900, during the Neolithic Period.

Neolithic means the "new stone age" and some of Scotland's best-known sites from that time are found in Orkney. They include standing stones, Skara Brae settlement and Maeshowe chambered tomb.

Highland Park unveils its oldest whisky: a 56-year-old expression from rare 1968 casks. Only 170 bottles available, featuring ...

to stories of standing stones that started to move at the stroke of midnight to the long, perhaps more familiar, boozy night as extra days off work were enjoyed to the full, New Year was Scotland ...

John Borland, of Historic Environment Scotland and president of the Pictish ... The Picts created cross-slabs, intricately decorated standing stones. They also constructed impressive hill forts ...

From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around ... the man credited with introducing Christianity to Scotland. In A.D. 565, according to this account, Columba was on his way ...

A graduate who vandalised a cabinet containing the Stone of Destiny in Edinburgh Castle has been given a community payback ...

Since 2006, every stone used in the Olympic Winter Games has come from Kays of Scotland. The company has produced curling stones since 1851. But making these stones isn't easy. For every stone it ...