'Extraordinary discovery' made at immense prehistoric site in Orkney as Time Team moves in

An “extraordinary discovery” has been made at one of Orkney’s most stunning Neolithic sites, which could completely rewrite ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What the Scottish Independence Referendum Could Mean for Orkney

Standing Stones, also known as "the First Stonehenge," in the Ring O Brodgar in Orkney © Andrew Wilson/LOOP IMAGES/Loop Images/Corbis Ten years ago a farmer was ...
AOL

How to eat and drink your way around Orkney

In Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoirThe Outrun, about her recovery from alcoholism, Orkney became a place to hide out. She had grown up among the purple heather and the wind-beaten plains, and they were to ...
heraldscotland

The biggest myths and misconceptions about Orkney

The islands have been in the news like rarely before. But still a lot of commentators, in the mainstream and online, keep getting some basic things about Orkney wrong. Let us start with the name. It ...
CNN

A stranger came out of the gloom on a Scottish island. She knew she should be with him

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 ...
The New York Times

Saving Scotland’s Heritage From the Rising Seas

Citizens and scientists on the Orkney Islands are racing to protect thousands of ancient structures threatened by climate change. Jim Dwyer, a New York Times reporter, and Josh Haner, a Times ...