The complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework, colored facades, even slate roofs—a rare extravagance ... to find a new site.” Life in Stone Age Orkney was far more refined than once ...

But why did the Neolithic builders of Stonehenge want a northern Scottish (or Orkney) rock as the symbolic centre of their spectacular southern British stone temple? At present there is no way of ...

You can go inside the stone chamber and see Viking graffiti carved on the ancient walls—a dragon, a serpent, a forest of runes. The Orkney archipelago was an epicenter of Neolithic life.