Tomb of Newgrange | National Geographic 

DidYaServe every child in Ireland is taught about newgrange at about 7 or 8 in school and most visit it in school tours

We weren't Christian's at that time

"Christianity has nothing on the people that built that" has to be the stupidest comment I have ever read. I hope you are not Irish.

Its not fake. It actually came from the site

what race is that

@@charlieyelland7515 ever heard of the group Celtic Woman?

@@charlieyelland7515 not your short minded race

...TMI!!!! lol. (U'll understand when U read my book!!!)

Irish people were always to be proud through out history, it is clear to see ask any person in America or any other country with Irish roots. Someone seen you coming🙄

Where have you been thought to be ashamed of our culture??

@@columbannon9134 why do they lie about history in the books then

@@shaneking8883 the ancient history at least it's not taught correctly in the books. Do research and you'll see you've been lied to by those who write those books

+glastonberry doubtful. DNA has shown that, despite earlier musings, ancient Hibernians and the Greeks were not of the same line.

There are quite a lot of drawings in Newgrange even found in caves in in Australia. But it could mean that someone in the 1900s saw this writings went o other parts of world and copied what they saw in far off places. When we see and encryption in say a cave in America we automatically think that the writings were put there thousands of years ago but it doesn't really mean that it could have been done anytime.

Bwhahaha.. yeah.. that's what happened. Someone was checking out some cave drawings and figured, hey, Think I'll sail around the world and copy this art on to other cave walls.. for no reason whatsoever.. Cmon man.

+colum bannon For the winter solstice? That's not when you sow or harvest. That is what Samhain is about and it's a month earlier. No disrespect intended. It's a good theory, it just doesn't fit that's all. Since it's the "longest night of the year" I imagine it had more to do with the 'world of the dead' than anything else.

It surposed to be like measure of an early calendar, for when the sun made it's way into the building it was a time for the farmers to start to sow the seeds, for this was one of the best ways of survival

The remains of only four people were discovered there as opposed to hundreds that were discovered in neighboring Knowth and Dowth. What made those certain people so important, I think was the biggest mystery I took away from it. Fascinating, regardless.

Please elaborate on the dating methods you have used on this site...?

the 5 thousand years old were dates from bones found inside newgrange but i agree that newgrange could be a lot older and the bone might be from people just living there and maybe died there.

@@carolineheck4803 it is more known that it is around 5300 year's old.

...the chief difficulty in comparing Newgrange to the Egyptian pyramids 600 years later is that both of them represent early, outcast-lineage gods, and in-lineage has been accounted-for with no indication of any such aboveground tomb-building....

is it not tribe of the goddess dona

Tribes of Dan. Most North western europeans are the tribes of Dan. The danes, the danube etc

The Irish built them over there

Yes, the Ancient India and Sumer were (probably) building huge monuments way before Newbridge but Not in Ireland.

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Ha ha ha. What an absolute stupid comment. Believe me, as an archaeologists son, I can guarantee you that this is well over 5000 years old. You sound like a jealous brit.

That's because the frontage had to be rebuilt after the monument was damaged.

Exactly, a megalithic monument that was damaged by a comet impact 11,600 years ago. Then REBUILT by whoever we claim originally built it.

@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 , no, it certainly is a recostruction. A 70's facade.

@@messyties Wrong again. In fact, what happened was that some of the facade had fallen to the ground, so in order to decide how it originally looked, the archaeologists decided to allow the remainder of the facade fall to the ground, saw where it fell, and on seeing where each piece fell, were able to see where each piece original was on the facade. All the pieces are the original rocks. It was just a fixing the ancient site. Nevertheless, it's absolutely comical to suggest that this wonderful ancient site is anything less than that. The Pyramids of Egypt were rebuilt in parts, the Alhambra was almost completely rebuilt, Machu Picchu was taken back from the encroaching rainforest, stonehenge was rebuilt almost completely too, the great wall of China was rebuilt.......in either entirity or partially......and all MUCH more so than Brú na Bóinne......and like those places, Newgrange and the rest of Brú na Bóinne deserve their respect just as much. All of the stones, etc. are all part of the original building. These idiotic people who find fault by a simple piece of 'modernisation' built on these magnificent ancient buildings to help bring them back to their former glory don't have a clue about what archaeolgy is about and may as well just forget about visiting any ancient sites at all. They have all been 'modernised' in some way or another, either for modern health and safety reasons, or to help keep the building secure and standing for the rest of us to see how our predecessors lived.

For survival, it was an early form of calendar, when the sun made it way into the chamber it was the time for the farmers to being sowing the land. They were a clever race of people.

Actually they were farmers, it’s fact!

To build something like this had to have a purpose, and it was for the number one thing and that was survival. This was built as an early form for the living to light up the chamber for the farmers to know what to start the harvest, for for the dead to be remembered in a special place.

@@columbannon9134 Plausible but I feels it’s more complex than that.

It is around 5300 years old, and it is older than the pyramids and Stonehenge

@@columbannon9134 exactly.... The pyramids are at least 10,000 years old.... This is straight lie

@@ivstova47 joke?

Not 5,000 years older than the pyramids at Giza. It’s 500 (five hundred) years older…

@@ivstova47 :No wrong. Pyramids aren’t 10,000 years old. They’re about 2,500 to 2,700 years BC which is 4,500 to 4,700 years ago…