Skara Brae is a Neolithic village located on the Bay of Skaill, on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney Islands in Scotland. Inhabited between 3180 BCE and 2500 BCE, it flourished before the ...

This chain of Scottish islands is seriously underrated. Here are six reasons to put the windswept Orkney Islands on your list of things to see the next time you're in Europe.

Thanks to the sea wall, Skara Brae remains intact, Ms. Gibson said, in contrast with an unprotected mill a few hundred yards away that has been demolished by tides and storms since 1972.

The Orkney Islands were at the innovative center of Britain's Neolithic culture, as the village of Skara Brae shows. The village was abruptly abandoned after roughly 600 years.

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 ...

Archaeologists date the village, called Skara Brae, to around 3100 B.C. and believe it was occupied for more than 600 years. Skara Brae must have been a cozy setup in its day.