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  2. List of megalithic monuments in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).

  3. Irish megalithic tombs - Wikipedia

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    Poulnabrone dolmen is an example of a portal tomb in the west of Ireland. Megalithic monuments in Ireland typically represent one of several types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs. [1] [2] The remains of over 1,000 such megalithic tombs have been recorded around Ireland. [3]

  4. Newgrange - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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  6. Slieve na Calliagh - Wikipedia

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    Research on human remains found in association with similar Irish monuments suggests that the builders were descendants of people who settled in Ireland from around 4,200 BC. [3] The two main cairns on the site are known as Cairn L and Cairn T, the latter of which is also called the 'Tomb of Ollamh Fodhla' or the 'Hag's Cairn'. More than 30 ...

  7. Passage tombs in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The usage period of Irish passage tombs date from c. 3750 B.C. to about 2500 B.C. [1] [2] About twenty clusters are recorded in Ireland, but the best known examples are found along a curved trajectory from the west coast to the east, including the centres of Carrowmore and Carrowkeel in County Sligo, and Loughcrew and the Boyne Valley in County ...

  8. Archaeologists Dove Beneath the Nile and Found a Surprise ...

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    A team of archaeological divers found pieces of ancient Egyptian artifacts that have been sitting at the bottom of the Nile River since the area was flooded in the 1960s and 1970s.

  9. Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut - Wikipedia

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    [83] [84] Hatshepsut's temple complex included the valley temple, causeway, and mortuary temple. Her tomb was built into the massif of the same cliffs as the temple, beneath the dominating peak of El Qurn (489 m (1,604 ft) AMSL [11]) that caps her tomb, in a sense, like the pyramid capped the tomb of an Old Kingdom pharaoh. [85]