New Light at Newgrange
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- As part of our celebration of Winter Solstice 2020 with OPW - Office of Public Works colleagues, which seem to have caught the public imagination in an extraordinary way this year, we thought you might like this short film on the architecture of the Neolithic passage tomb and the remarkable Solstice phenomenon.
The film, produced by John Murray of Crossing the Line Films also highlights ongoing research being carried out by OPW - Office of Public Works and National Monuments Service - Archaeology at the monument which forms part of the @UNESCO World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne.
We have had two wonderful days so far of OPW - Office of Public Works Solstice coverage from Newgrange, and thank you to all our many friends, old and new, from across the globe who have joined with us all in celebrating the dark end of one astronomical year and the brighter start to the next!
FINAL DAY of OPW - Office of Public Works live streaming tomorrow from 0845am UTC/GMT at heritageireland.ie/winter-sol... and where you can catch up on the last 2 days of beautiful imagery and expert commentary by Clare Tuffy and Dr Frank Prendergast.
Happy Solstice!
Brú na Bóinne - Newgrange and Knowth
Heritage Ireland
UNESCO
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Malcolm Noonan T.D.
#wintersolstice2020
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All school kids used to be taken here. It's an awesome place. It's our pyramids. This - for me as an Irishman - is the most amazing structure on Earth.
@Nautilus1972 That's right. I remember a school trip to Newgrange in 1960 when I was 7 years old. It left such an impression on my young mind that I have never forgotten it. Mind you, it was a lot easier for a small boy to walk along the passage to the centre than it would be for me now.
It’s an amazing and magical experience, my 18 year old son in Kilkenny didn’t go with his school, they should definitely reintroduce the school trips to Newgrange and the Boyne Valley, it’s a world heritage site and an absolute treasure of immense historical importance.
One of the wonders of the world: these ancient people used stone to interact with light to create an inspirational and deeply moving phenomenon.
This is such a deep comment. THANK YOU for voicing your thought: you are so appreciated.
Thank you
They had to leave a window open so the souls wouldn’t be trapped. The window had to be facing the right direction so the souls would know the way home to where they came from.. the east.
The structure is a womb. At winter solstice the sunlight penetrates into the womb and re-ignites a new year and new life.
correct...the sun is reborn at the winter Solstice when it reaches the Tropic of Capricorn on its ecliptic and starts rising (birth) again towards the equator...death and rebirth of the sun...Newgrange represents the coming together of the two forces of yin/ feminine and yang/masculine to create life in the womb...the emerging 'sun god'...
A celestial calendar. Never underestimate the practicality and the importance of survival. These ancient cultures knew that they needed to keep the seasons organized, to know when to plant crops and to know when to harvest them. Blending practicality with the spiritual has always been so interesting to me. It's so human. 5,000 years later and we still seek to find spiritual meaning in practical things.
What a land of magic Ireland has been and remains
People seem to forget about County Meath, yet two of the most important historical sites in all Ireland Tara and Newgrange reside in County Meath..
oh yeah inbreeding is so wonderful
@@bent540 inbreeding? this is Ireland not America
@@bent540 Stop it . You guys did the " family " thing too.
Amadán!
I would love to visit Newgrange at the winter solstice and see the sun rays inside. I wonder if the builders thought that the sun would bring their dead back to life, the way it brings nature back to life in spring if it entered the burial chamber. Very interesting film.
do you live in a house without windows? you want to see sunrays?? are you foking kiddin?
I saw a video that tell us Newgrange is a Con, that the stones are concrete over steel. That's sad if it's the truth .
Ireland was the most wonderful place I’ve ever been. New Grange was incredible!
Well your always welcome Mary Anne ❤ especially with those first names 😎
I was here just 3 weeks ago. Go see this amazing site in your lifetime. I pent 33 days traveling Ireland and Scotland. There are numerous Neolithic sites to behold!
Its truly amazing I'm so proud to be Irish with such historic structures at my door step I wonder why dowth hasn't been excavated yet brilliant video guys ❤
It's a shame we have lost our love and understanding of the stars.
Incredible! Such a remarkable place and the video is well produced, too.
I love Newgrange and have been blessed to visit this magical place many times . .
It's a nine year waiting list when I last visited. One woman travelled twice on the Summer solstice and on each day the clouds covered the sun. It was still magical. It's actually older than the Pyramids, although I'm sceptical about the real age of the pyramids, I think they are much, much older that what is believed.
Its that is do ...the pyramids older than 5000 yrats it would make new grange much older too. It coukd be. I think it is. There is a corbled rook in the lowesst layers of yheAsyeriam in Egypt. Similar to Newgrange. This to me is spectacular... it could be way way older...
I believe the tomb was for life and death. The life was when the light enters the tomb at the shortest day as a time calendar for the farmers to begin work on the land for to help fed the people to survive. And a place to respect the dead.
Extremely impressive; visited in August 2018.
This is pleasant. It seems like a welcome to Ireland tourism piece. It tells us nothing except the misconception of the structures being constructed as tombs. New understanding clarifies these things. But a lovely video regardless.
The amount of time, research, mathematics and knowledge that went into just the PLANNING phase of these structures is astounding.
Someone would have to NOTICE the short days, find out which day is the shortest day, count out the number of days until the next year, find out EXACTLY where the sun hits at sunrise...build a structure that lines interior corridors and windows up EXACTLY to that sunrise date and time.
Then there's the excavating, dragging the stones and building it to these specifications!
Who had time--and knowledge, to do this...I would think they'd be hunting, growing, building huts and just trying to survive the harsh elements.
Just like with the Pyramids, it's incredibly hard to believe it was a primitive society, with no modern tools or education, not long removed from "cavemen" that built these monuments. Maybe someday we'll find out the truth.
@@knov314 I agree there is ample evidence around that shows there have been many great civilisations that existed long before the Egyptians and the Greeks and so forth.
Look at the temple of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, built twelve thousand years ago by a civilisation that nobody has an knowledge of at all and its taken current day archaeologists year's to stop denying it admit they were wrong and agree with the age of the temple.
Why? Because like all evidence found of great civilisations not recorded by current history it's disrupts the "agreed time line" of how the "experts" say history developed.
There are new sites being discovered all the time now with the advancement of lidar aerial ground penetrative radar and its has a lot of established historians very worried as they are now feeling like the Catholic Church priests did when more and more scientists were presenting the public with evidence of history and life which contradicted that which the Church preached and enforced.
Look at the recent discovery of human hand and foot prints that have been dated to being "200 thousand" years old.
Think of the people at that time and the villages towns or cities they could have built, only to have all knowledge of them wiped from existence by natural disasters or disease or war.
And the only remnants that remain today are enormous monolithic stone's that are so heavy that they remain in place even today or built upon by succeeding generations of humans.
There are even rumoured to be ancient archaeological remains found in Antarctica dating from when the continent was ice free and like you mentioned the American military who discovered it are said to have been removing anything of grand importance for US governments own agenda.
On the mention of the Atlantean civilisation you might want to look at the TH-cam channel Bright Insight as he has presented evidence to show what I and many others believe to be the actual location of the lost city and it's no longer anywhere near water which will surprise you and is even more believable and amazing.
The fact that a CIA document on the location has only just been declassified also shows that there is something special about the location.
Is that the same stone between 0:53 and 0:58? Because it's an amazing moment that hasn't been seen in an entire Precession and it is due to grace our heavens next year! Love the monolith at 2:34. You could call it the Apocalypse Stone. Count the Virgo Diamonds on each end and wonder how the world gets turned round! Our future descendants will want a monument similar to Newgrange tracking the Equinox! Next year will be amazing!
Outstanding collaboration: well done!
It's a symbol of cosmic rebirth, birth of a soul, etc. In complete darkness, an atom is hurled, light, from the darkness is manifested all that time has to unfold.
What was Newgrange like previous to repair/reconstruction? Nobody ever shares those details...
Thank You for such a High Quality Film. I crawled along a similar Passage in a similar Womb Tomb on Orkney Island. This is all very fascinating and intriguing
Unfortunately during the reconstruction of newgrange a lot of it was guessed so who knows what the original looked like to the ancients
Lovely, thank you for sharing.
Poor folk - how many years it must have taken to get a sunny day to notice this great discovery!
Wonderful!
Older than the pyramids.
It is important to mark each day where the sun lands and what that may signify. Follow the path of light. Where mirrors used, glass or water. Don't just think of tourists and money. Don't turn it into another stone henge.
this is so much more impressive then the Giza plateua combined
It looks like a structure in America''s southern state..I am shocked no rather intrigued by this building! Look in the southern state ..where I was told by my dad that our ancestors were the ancient Irish and Scottish called the Celts and some say Druids I saw the book was on amazon..its too high for me to purchase but it adding up to what I was told.
Hi. Where is the structure that you mentioned is in the southern state in America? What does it look like? Where is it located? How can I find out more about it?
In Ireland if we want a particular book we ask our local library to buy it. We can then borrow it. Can you not do that in the states?
I’d love to visit Newgrange even if it’s not the solstice. I thinks it’s just a really cool place.
Love history on the pyramids...and other cultures. This is kinda personal. Thanks for sharing
We clear Our Head. As far way from county loud.
The archaeologist who excavated and restored the Newgrange tumulus was a certain Dr. Michael O'Kelly. Apparently, he is still criticised for restoring the tumulus following contemporary architecture. However, I think that his critics should comprehend that it is a huge structure that was complicated to build and its had caved in before the good Dr. O'Kelly excavated and restored it. What else could the poor man do it to bring it to picture perfect without the concrete plinths and quartz outercasing? The tumulus would have collapsed without his intervention. The restoration had to allow for the mind to work out how to keep the tumulus from collapsing once again. The doorway into the building allows for the showcasing of the creativity and genius of its farmer builders. Dr. O'Kelly, well done, Sir.
I've visited Ireland on three separate occasions, but somehow I never got around to seeing Newgrange. Must go back now
If you liked this video, check out Anthony Murphy’s work over at Mythical Ireland:
th-cam.com/users/mythicalireland
Would the sun etc be in a slightly better position back when it was constructed. Cheers Rosemary Perth Western Australia (71 yrs)
They said it was.
Much love from 71 year old grandma from Prineville Oregon USA
Could we not use a mirror system to correct the 4 minutes loss on the hearth axis?
They haven't bothered to interpid the HUGE ROCK CARVINGS , at the front , this is a complete story in itself , !
I think that these stone works are a lot older how can you tell how old stone is, newgrange was discovered in the 19 century by accident, it was buried underground for thousands of years, if you look at the stone work around it it is well weather beaten, does this happen when stones are buried i do not think so,it looks to me that the stones were well weathered beaten before it was covered and buried by time.
The beginning of the shortest day of the year is also the beginning of the longest night. This last shaft of sunlight before that night may have symbolized the dead’s spirits ascending to an afterlife. From a Christian POV, I also consider the Diaspora (the scattering of the 10 tribes of Israel).
Perhaps “sunlight” is equivalent to “Son light”…the path to return to God.
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This monument was actually built for the Spring Equinox, but it lines up with the Winter solstice as well.
I really want to go to newgrange
Considering the reconstruction with concrete with the refacing of the white stone wall and more importantly the increased height of the aperture of the light box and inner stones I’m surprised that they could get a idea of what was originally intended. Will it ever be restored correctly? The passageway could be LiDAR scanned and with 3D software, multiple solstices could be had under different processional times and adjustments of said light box and stone.
It would be intriguing to see if the parabolic discs at the end if polished enough or covered in reflective material could send the sunlight into a spiralling loop to be observed slowly by the ancient users rather than the crude idea of a place to put bones which may or may not of happened and if it was was just some way of burying them with their creation afterwards in honour or just plain vengeance.
If the builders of New Grange could see the workmanship carried out on the new door they would be very disappointed in our progress. The OPW don't seem to have a clue what they are at. Im so disappointed. The importance of these sites is huge.
They had nothing else to do it with, nobody mentions this. It’s building materials, . A clock of the years ending and New year starting.. saying it starts here, and ends here. To remember the time, before they had words to say, how many years the King or whoever was buried . .?
I don’t understand. Are you saying that there used to be a door that they would close during the solstice so the only light would come through the portal? Is there evidence of the door? Or did they just move that big block in front of the doorway? 6:52
Stonehenge Tale
The stone circles here and there to stubbornly stand for closed reincarnation,
The Sun at winter solstice coincidentally penetrates the tombs dark for ages.
Step out of repetition,
Grow up from limitation,
During the oldest day,
Son of GOD eyes a ray of Hope of Humanity.
The Irish were always ahead of the rest of Europe.
Good
Carl Sagan gold disk star map. The swirls on roof. Do they align?
30yrs and you did not think to block the doorway to isolate the roofbox? WhereTF are you people from?
The spirals on the kerbstone show the airflow within and the stages of chemical production process within. For those who don’t know the science it’s usually thought to be ‘something spiritual’. The Land Of Chem youtube channel has an episode explains it well.
Did we seriously only consider closing the entrance of the tomb last year?
Why did you know? I think not
Hehe I guess
archeologist are some of the worst people!
Whishta, well Lord above Colin? Did they ever have a sunny day to even ponder light entering?
Bellissimo complimenti 👏👏
How do these experts know that it was a burial ground.
experts think that ancient people built burial grounds just like modern people. people are and were people. the building probably had a practical purpose for the living.
Just because the monuments are on Irish land, it does not surmise that it was Irish people who created them.
I was lucky enough to visit the site in 1996; it is truly amazing.
The entrance stone...!!! The only stone in my medicine bag is the oldest physical posession that i have...since i found it even then and every day iv known it was special
Just smaller...message more in aa moment
Ok😮
I wonder what the people who built this temple would think of the current mass hysteria...
These aren’t tombs
These are map markers to the great sky clock
Yes, pompous British scholars always believe they know everything.( guess again, they don't as their massive egos trip them up, we know otherwise)
No ancient Irish culture could construct such a complex and beautiful monument.
Only the neolithic Britains could construct something so awe inspiring.
Don't fret & worry he'll soon be dead but Newgrange will remain reading the night sky for eons too come.
We belong to the earth & the sky & the oceans not mankind's plastic, glass and steel hideous soulless constructions.
Never forget something wonderful is going to happen.
All ancient people believed in the resurrection
Are they sure this was just a tomb?
Original purpose: cosmic clock
Ooohhhh yeah 🥰🤗
not tombs*
why did the british built magabry prison on an ancient irish christian non protestant prayer line ?
Does the moon rise in the window?
Venus rises through it every eighth year
The Atlanteans split into four groups to carry the Mysteries to the four corners of the globe. The last group to stop travelling arrived in Ireland.
Utter bull shite🤣🤣🤣
Your fantasies are not history, child.
@@washerdryer3466 eat one
@@lordjesus238 from a so called Christian...don't you have evangelizing to do
*Have a Wonderful Winter Solstice.*
A traditional celebration dating back more than 5000 years in which the Sun is literally rebirthed in the passageway of an ancient tomb, "The Grand Passage Tomb", a World Heritage site.
A celebration of life and renewal, peace and camaraderie with food, song, dance and good cheer.
Happy Holidays.
*Let the Sunshine In...*
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What happened to the human remains
They have been taken and DNA analysis has been performed on them and the results were that the people buried therein were all very closely related suggesting a high degree of consanguinity.
Umm, it’s not a tomb.
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Ireland is where unicorns, fairies, wizards, and dragons come from.
Not forgetting the Bean Sí (fairy woman), an Leath Chorpáin (half/small body ie Leprechaun - shoemaker to the Fairies/Síoga,) Taibhse (ghost), Fóidín Mairiúl (deadly sod/spot), Aisling (visionary spirit), srl/etc....
No. Unicorns come from Scotland. Or maybe they come from Scotland and go to Ireland?? They must get a ferry across. Ferry..... Boat. Not fairie..... Sprite.
I have a poor view of our current orthodox archaeologists calling every Neolithic chamber a tomb.
Not a tomb!
3...there were 3 comments I typed came to make another...i was 3rd comment. anyway...alwys thought it was balane
When is everyone in this world goimg to understand, all of our ancestors were connected.all cultures were connected to the sun ...the sun also is a reference to the "son of god " not jesus the literal "sun of god " .
If New grange was built 5 thousand years ago it was built before the Irish arrived .
What does that mean? "before the Irish arrived"? Where else would the Irish be but in Ireland!
@@fromireland8663 Apparently the Celts we know as the Irish arrived in what we know as Ireland from mainland Europe around 600 B C.
@@raysargent4055 so what? Whoever was there before 600 bc were Irish.
@@fromireland8663 what even if they weren't.
“....built tombs for. their dead....”Tombs and ONLY tombs..alone?Look at the current prevailing thought on..the Great Pyramid.....simply tombs?🐝🌈☘️
Yes! Tombs they are tombs you ass. I suppose you think it was aliens 👽 cosmic man!
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it
Newgrange is certainly not the oldest construction in the world. I always wonder where 'scientists' find the proof for this kind of conclusion. An old Arabic book, the Hitat, tells us that the pyramids in Giza were built 72,000 years ago. But the reason for building both structures is the same. Ancient books as the Mahabharata from India and the Popol Vuh from the Maya tell us that the earth is suffering from a cycle of natural disasters. These disasters are causing a huge tidal wave, floods, earthquakes and a bombardment of fiery meteors. Many animals become extinct, mankind hardly survives. This creates a cycle of civilizations. One of these civilizations is, near the end of their existence, higher developed than our civilization today. They vanished 20,000 years ago because of the next recurring, thus predictable, disaster. To tell us that they existed, they constructed huge monuments like the pyramids. And Newgrange may have been a survival place. It must have a very strong roof to protect against the meteors. To learn much more about the cycle of civilizations and its timeline, recurring floods and ancient high tech, read the e-book:"Planet 9 = Nibiru" You can read it nicely on every computer, tablet or smartphone. Just search for: invisible nibiru 9
Just because human bones were found inside doesn't mean it was a burial mound. More than anything, this looks like some form of bomb shelter to me. Why go to all this bother to bury some people? I don't think that was why this mound was built.
Bombs during the Neolithic period?
@@rachelhunt3781 Ancient Sumerian texts refer to massive bombs which sound like nuclear weapons to me. In fact, one theory states that a nuclear weapon brought about the end of the Sumerian Empire. Pyramids certainly were not tombs. No bodies, no heiroglyphics- Nada.
Noi milanesi discendiamo dai Celti insubri e troppi secoli vicini a latini , e popoli mediterranei che ci hanno imposto la loro cultura ci ha rovinato ....
Nn ultime poi invasioni nel secolo scorso di gente del Sud Italia, che sono i discendenti dei greci romani ecc
E l'Italia a livelli governo centrale sempre in mano a loro 😢
Ora invasi massicciamente da magrebini ecc ecc ecc
Adoro la cultura celtica e mi sono tatuato la croce anche se purtroppo da noi vieni considerato un fascista