Shining A Light On Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland 1988
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- Research suggests the builders of Newgrange had sophisticated knowledge of the solar system and astronomical events.
Five thousand years ago Neolithic (late Stone Age) peoples living in Ireland constructed a magnificent burial mound on the banks of the river Boyne.
When the monument was excavated during the 1960s it emerged that sunlight shone into the tomb on the morning of the winter solstice, illuminating the chamber within.
A scientific study by Dr Tom Rea and Dr Tim O’Brien at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) enabled them to calculate what would have happened at the winter solstice when the monument was first constructed.
Tom Rea explains how the study established sunlight would have travelled much further back into the chamber, illuminating the spirals in the recess furthest away from the entrance. This would make the tomb,
Symmetrical to the path of the sun over 5000 years ago.
Their study asserts that it is very unlikely that it was a coincidence that the winter solstice sun shone though the roof box at the entrance to the tomb and along the narrow chamber inside it.
The statistical estimate of it being an accident, as some people have argued in the past, is very very remote.
This puts Newgrange on a par with sites such as Stonehenge in England, even though it was built a thousand years earlier,
It may well be the case that Ireland has the oldest observatory in the world.
This episode of ‘Zero’ was broadcast on 16 November 1988. The reporter is John Murray.
‘Zero’ was a magazine-style programme covering developments in science and technology. The first programme was broadcast on 7 January 1987. The series ran until 1989. The RTÉ Guide published an article about the series in its edition of 2 January 1987. - Zábava
I took my Wife and my Mother and Father in 1995 it truly is a beautiful monument and a credit to the people who built it
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Thanks for this. But I wish archeological scholars might address what appears to be a mutilation of this ancient site. The 'front' of this seems like a WH portal or some recent century monument. 'Pre-historic' - doesn't seem so to me,more like a McDonalds.
What you see today in front of the passage grave is a reconstruction during the 1970s onwards. We have no idea whether or not it resembles the facade of five thousand years ago, probably not. It's purely to make it look right for today's visitors.
I saw this monument in Japanese anime master keaton
When a non-Swede was given the position of "Director of National Antiquities" (or some such equivalent) in Sweden, she ordered the melting down of several tons worth of iron artifacts discovered at archaeological sites throughout the country, Baltic and Scandanavian region.
To that Somali-Swede, it was all just scrap metal. She had no tie to the items, as it was just old junk from some dead people.as
It could not more poignantly illustrate the importance of a people having an ethnic home. Its not just having legal residence that makes one "Irish", but being in a place where one's ancestors resided for thousands of years.
Similarly, the Irish are one day going to have their thousands of millennia-old fairy forts, holy wells, and centuries old whitethorn and blackthorn tree copses, paved over by an "Irish of Nigerian descent", or someone equally as non-ethnically Irish, who share no cultural tie to the places. One who, like the Somali in Sweden, will consider it racist or impractical to deny access to resources over something as ridiculous as a "fairy ring".t
Non-Europeans are doing their darnedest to destroy every vestige of European identity wherever and whenever the opportunities present themselves. And it will absolutely happen in Ireland as well.
Get out of here with that nonsense story about Sweden.
Movinon - prick.
The Somalis are better than you are.
Amazing structure, hopefully they don’t fill it with asylum seekers
I saw this monument in Japanese anime