A 'mind-blowing' few weeks for neolithic discoveries near Newgrange
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2018
- Recent weeks have been some of the most exciting in years for Irish archaeologists studying the area around Newgrange in Co Meath.
You might expect the area - a Unesco World Heritage Site - to be so well documented that everything of note has turned up, but it has yielded yet more fascinating discoveries.
First, drought conditions in the area started to reveal shapes in fields, suggesting the presence of previously unknown enclosures or henges right on the footsteps of Newgrange.
Mythical Ireland’s Anthony Murphy and Ken Williams of Shadows & Stone photography found two henges using a drone, located right beside Site P, an already documented site. Murphy described it as a ‘mind-blowing’.
Days later, archaeologists working on lands bought by agri-technology company Devenish revealed that their separate excavations had uncovered the remains of a massive passage tomb at Dowth Hall.
The site is still being excavated, but unfortunately much of it was damaged and disturbed the construction of the 18th century building that towers over the site - this includes a underground tunnel for servants cutting right through a part of the tomb.
On top of all this, a team are conducting the first dig on the floodplains in front of Newgrange for more than 30 years, although their findings have yet to be revealed as the excavation is still underway.
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I think we totally underestimate the knowledge ancient people's had, they were truly amazing! Same as the ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, their knowledge was amazing!
I'm blown away that my ancestors had a history that far back, 5000 years!
The people that are responsible for the construction of these tombs in Ireland share the exact same ancestry with the people that are responsible for the construction of the pyramids in Egypt. The ancestors of both migrated from central Anatolia almost 8,000 years ago…
Thank you. This is amazing. It's my hope that the more we learn about these ancient peoples for their own sake also teaches us about ourselves.
I am in awe of these megalithic sites. Newgrange alone I'd spectacular but to have so many new sites alongside it, Knowth and Dowth is just fantastic. The ancient people of the Boyne were master builders.
Brilliant film!
All spiral symbolic art, showing close similarity to art in Malta temple and art of Danube Valley Civilization , it meanning that post Ice Age Gravettian people has been moving far south and far north, far east and west. It was a First World Civilization.
@THE ONE Most societies developed independently from one another. You have to recall the distances between them in ancient times was enormous. They had limited access to or awareness of cultures even 10 miles away, let alone thousands. We in the 21st century cannot imagine what life was like when you had to walk to get anywhere outside your immediate dwelling or village. Most people never left their villages at all. How could they have known about what was happening thousands of miles away?
@mo•mo•mo these are older than the pyramids 3500 BC
@mo•mo•mo no one "flew around" and showed humans a thing.
@@carolynzaremba5469 A stellar point, from such a basic premise. I could not agree more. I was always fascinated with the thought that from the earliest history of mankind, through to around 1850-ish, the best, fastest, most reliable... basically the single way, the only way, humans could and did communicate with each other over any distance, came down to how loud a person’s shouting voice was. That, and in later years, how fast the fastest horse could carry the message & communique. Think about that. How long the one way existed as the only way; and to be virtually forgotten, as fiber optics and wireless 5G are now the norm. What any of us would have done then?
But cool point you have here, C. Zaremba, Thanks
@@allenpeck8239 Some Native American tribes communicated with smoke.
It is the belief of many that we were NOT meant to disturb our ancestral dead. The term REST IN PEACE has true meaning. My Irish lineage urns for understanding of our Celtic/Druid past. (My own great-grandmother came to the colonies as a indentured servant at the age of 8. The sole survivor in the family of the potato bight/famine. She brought with her fair skin, red hair, green eyes which my Sister & 1cousin inherited; rosea which my Sister's children & I inherited.)
These tombs predate the arrival to the island of Ireland of the Celts and their religious leaders, the Druids, by about 2,000 years…
We don't know what they knew......
Yes we do, we pagans do.
@@amymcconnoran4482ah, but which variety of pagan were these people?
Going to be there in July.
These megalithic marvels were astronomical equipments used to measure a standardised length based upon the rotation of the earth.
what if theres a hidden place we havent discoverd yet
lol
mikechep, There likely are many places & things we are yet to see & unearth. If we were to spend more time examining Mother Earth than we do escaping her. We would find more about ourselves than ever before. Perhaps fear of what would be found is why some turn to the stars & other planets. Tis a shame really.
I guess they are not tombs. Just as in Teotihuacan, Tiwanaku, Pyramid of Serbia, Wyoming big horn medecine wheel, Qingtai "ruins" ( Big Dipper Nine Stars) etc etc etc.. they are astronomical markers / energy concentrators. And we still believe our ancestors were not "developed"
They are tombs. They contained remains.
noice
That's crazy
Cool
Drones will solve a lot of mysteries.
Did ancient neolithic man understand the concepts of Louth and Meath?
Dam
why are we protecting the house?
A good question.
Probably a recent pimple on the face of a very ancient landscape.
If it shares occupancy with an ancient neolithic site - caput. If not - ná bac leis an dteach.
@@dukadarodear2176 People have being building on sacred sites since the dawn of time hoping to benefit from whatever power they thought the site radiated. Matters not if intentional or not at this stage I guess.
Have a look at what's under this cathedral in Mexico:
images.app.goo.gl/LK7NYisVeKJcSTkx9
The whole area is being developed as a conservation and research centre for the future of sustainable agriculture as well as being a preserved neolithic site.
@Sahra Sands
www.devenishnutrition.com/press-releases/187/discovery-of-megalithic-passage-tomb-cemetery-within-the-bru-na-boinne-world-heritage-site
The house is of historical significance.
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Money should be made available to excavate these sites.What wod be made on these with tours alone wod more than cover the cost.
It was excavated completely in the 60s,they restored it with reinforced concrete .
Who's here off the 1d mtsion history google classroom
2:00 Talk to pagans please..
This is so disrespectful.