Newgrange Ireland - ancient history

The Great Pyramid in Egypt is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world. However , a group of lesser-known monuments found in the Boyne Valley in Ireland are thought to be more. Newgrange is best known among them . Its date of construction around 3200 BCE , it would be 600 years older than the pyramids of Giza and 1,000 years older than Stonehenge. There is a cairn or mound of stones water rolled , each of which is between six and nine inches wide. It is about 280 meters in diameter and 44 feet high. Approximately 200,000 tons of materials were used in its construction, and it was estimated it would take a team of about 30 300 years to build . This cairn has 97 large borders at its base, and is surrounded by twelve permanent ones . Some believe that there may have originally been 35 to 38 of these stones. Each is about six feet tall, and they form a circle about 340 feet in diameter around the mound , which is slightly larger than the diameter of Stonehenge.

This passage is located about 30 miles north of Dublin, with similar mounds known as Knowth and Dowth . It is a type of monument known to archaeologists as a passage - the passage tombs or graves. Newgrange and its partner sites provide excellent examples of art, engineering capabilities , and astronomical knowledge of the ancient inhabitants of Ireland.

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