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Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú [1]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [2] It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian ...
The Newgrange cursus can be found approximately 100m east of the great passage tomb at Newgrange, in County Meath, Ireland. The ancient route lies on a north-south axis, and is made up of two parallel banks 20m apart.
The reconstructed Newgrange Michael Joseph " Brian " O'Kelly FSA MRIA [ 1 ] (5 November 1915 – 14 October 1982) [ 2 ] was an Irish archaeologist who led the excavation and restoration of Newgrange , a major Neolithic passage tomb in the Boyne Valley , County Meath , Ireland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Bones of Araucana chickens found at El Arenal site in the Arauco Peninsula, an area inhabited by Mapuche, support a pre-Columbian introduction of landraces from the South Pacific islands to South America. [35] The bones found in Chile were radiocarbon-dated to between 1304 and 1424, before the arrival of the Spanish.
Several Early Bronze Age timber circles have been found in Ireland. A huge timber circle with a diameter of 250 metres (820 ft) was built around a passage tomb on the Hill of Tara. [1] Smaller timber circles were built at sites including Newgrange and Navan. [2] Timber circles in the British Isles likely served ritual purposes. Animal bone and ...
Archaeologists Accidentally Discovered the Oldest Gun Ever Found in America. Tim Newcomb. December 9, 2024 at 11:38 AM. Country’s Oldest Gun Discovered in Arizona Raylorxp2 - Getty Images
[123] [124] [125] A large collection of the oldest gold objects in the world was found nearby, in the Varna Necropolis [122] Shunet El Zebib: Egypt: Africa: 2700 BCE Mortuary temple Built as a funerary enclosure, a place where the deceased king was worshipped and memorialised. Los Naranjos: Honduras: North America: 2000 BCE Temples