The stone age lasted for over 2,5 million years and only ended 4.000 years ago. In this series the focus is on the Neolithic Era, or New stone age, since most structures from the stone age were built ...

Prehistoric Habsburgs. And the god-king buried in the Newgrange passage tomb was apparently part of a well-connected class of such rulers who held sway over the entire island of Ireland for at ...

It has long been believed that burial at the Newgrange tomb was the preserve of kings and other dignitaries. Kevin Sharkey. BBC News NI Dublin reporter. Published. 24 June 2025.

Newgrange passage tomb is one of the earliest and greatest feats of solar alignment, built 1,000 years before Stonehenge. Viewers can see it by lottery only.

The Newgrange passage tomb was built more than 5,000 years ago — making it older than Stonehenge in England and the pyramids at Giza in Egypt. The tomb and the surrounding area, ...

Newgrange, a massive passage tomb dating to 3,200 B.C., stands in the countryside less than an hour’s drive north of Dublin, Ireland.

Built somewhere between 3100 and 2900 BC, the famous passage tomb at Newgrange is estimated to be approximately 5,000 years old, even predating Stonehenge in Britain by 1,000 years. 5.

The tomb is 5,200 years old ... Newgrange is part of a complex of monuments built along a bend of the River Boyne known collectively in the Irish language as Brú na Bóinne and the sites are ...

The magic of the tombs at Newgrange on the winter solstice Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland, is one the most famous prehistoric sites in the world for good reason.