NewStone

Here is Newgrange, a 5200-year-old tumulus constructed during the New Stone Age.  It is younger than Carnac, just a little older than the oldest bits of Stonehenge, and much older than the Pyramids. The huge megaliths that make up most of the structure, and which corbel 20 meters upward in the burial chamber, were brought up the river Boyne from 20km away.  The white quartz facing was brought from 50km away, and if there were sunlight— here it is raining heavily— it would just blaze. Only the...