Newgrange

Has anyone here heard of Newgrange? Its an ancient site in Ireland built of stone, constructed about 5000 years ago in 3200BC! Its 600 years older than Giza and 1000 years older than Stonehenge! Also there is a special event that occurs there every December. On the Winter Solstice, the light of the rising sun enters the roofbox at Newgrange and penetrates the passage, shining onto the floor of the inner chamber. The sunbeam illuminates the chamber of Newgrange for just 17 minutes. That means these people must have had knowledge of the stars and the suns path. The High Kings (Ri's) are also buried there. Thousands of white shiny stones were found inside and archaeologists placed these outside. Many stones with swirly pictures were found. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Nobody finds this interesting? Come on, its older than the pyramids.

Hi im from ireland,
And have seen this many many times,Ive also seen the sun shine through the window box on the summer soltase(have to be up early though), It is a highly interesting place. Word of warning it has been restored in the last few years! So it looks almost too nice now. Really nice place to go if your come to ireland. If you want any info on the people who built it or,any more info im sure i can dig some up

Merkz out

[edit on 3-6-2005 by Merkeva]

[edit on 3-6-2005 by Merkeva]

I watched a doc on Diskcovery channel about three weeks ago. I found this a really interesting place and when I get to Ireland this on on my list of must sees.

Ireland is a really good place to see some pre-recoreded histoy the landscape its dotted with cairns(buirial mounds) and other monoliths standing stones and such, some are still ingraved with celtic runes and ogham , Ogham stones are like markers etched with a numeric sort of alphabet consisting of straight lines:

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www.alia.ie...

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And finally recently found prehistoric map of the moon found in Co.Meath at Knoth Burial mound

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Merkz out

[edit on 3-6-2005 by Merkeva]

[edit on 3-6-2005 by Merkeva]