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The entrance passage of the Irish, prehistoric monument Newgrange, decorated with white quartz cobblestones and guarded by spiral engraved entrance stones covered in Megalithic art, is a UNESCO World Heritage site residing in County Meath, Ireland.

Ancient Mayan (Yucatan) drawings in a cave in Cuba.

Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland - July 16, 1986: 1980s old Positive Film scanned, Newgrange prehistoric monument, County Meath, Ireland.

World heritage in Ireland. Beautiful blue sky on the white stone structure. Several people visited the site. The entrance.

Spiral carvings on a kerb stone at the entrance to Newgrange chambered passage tomb

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of the town of Drogheda. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Newgrange is the main monument in the Brú na Bóinne complex, a World Heritage Site that also includes the passage tombs of Knowth and Dowth, as well as other henges, burial mounds and standing stones.

18th October 2018, Co Meath, Ireland. Newgrange neolithic prehistoric stone age passage tomb mound.

Rock with petroglyphs decoration and ancestral art of Mogor beach, Marín, Pontevedra province, Galicia, Spain, set in early Bronze Age. There is an interpretation center nearby but the Petroglyphs themselves are of public free access.

Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland

County Meath, Ireland - July 24, 1986: 1980s old Positive Film scanned, Newgrange prehistoric monument, County Meath, Ireland.

Sunny day and the stone monument.

The geometric rock carvings of El Paso represent enormous spirals, concentric circles or other abstract figures. To explain their meaning there are a variety of theories: worship of the sun, of the water or the goddess of springs. But nowadays the researchers consider them directly related to religious practices associated with water of fertility rites. El Paso, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

Newgrange chambered passage tomb

The king of Munster who once rules these lands had seven daughters and two sons. His rival was also a powerful clan chief and the time came when the king had to defend his land. One fateful day the army rode out to battle with the king and his two sons at the head of it. Although victorious, it came at a great cost, as both sons were killed in the fight. The army marched back to the castle, on route passing the ancient druids stone circle that had stood for millennia. The king dispatched a contingent of men to the sacred site and in his grief, he instructed them to push over two of the nine standing stones. This would forever commemorate his two fallen sons. The seven sisters remain standing to this day….

Newgrange, Ireland - May 23, 2015: A guide stands at the entrance to the Newgrange mound passage tomb, constructed around 3,000 B.C. The passage leads to a burial chamber 59 feet from the entrance built of 200,000 tons of mortarless stone that remains watertight to this day.

Knowth, Newgrange / Crewbane, County Meath, Ireland: Knowth burial mound (in Irish Cnobha), the site of a Neolithic passage tomb in the Boyne Valley. There is some evidence that activity continued at the Knowth site into the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. The site belongs to the tomb complex of Brú na Bóinne. It lies approximately 1 km northwest of Newgrange, and 2 km west of Dowth. UNESCO world heritage site.

A pair of grass covered passage tombs in the form of mounds, surrounded by kerbstones, on a wet day at Knowth, part of the Brú na Bóinne complex.

Bronze age carvings in stone in Rocky Valley, Tintagel. Rocky Valley, Tintagel, Cornwall, UK.

Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland

Detail of a stacked-stone fence/wall around the border of The Burren in County Clare, Ireland.

A tomb at Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery located near Sligo town on the Coolera Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland

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Drogheda, Ireland - July 15, 2020: Panoramic view of Newgrange prehistoric monument which is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.

Aberlemno Pictish refers to a collection of Pictish stones and carved stones located in and around the village of Aberlemno in Angus, Scotland. The Picts were an ancient people who lived in what is now eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods.

Ireland Hill of Tara neolithic burial mound

Two big boulders by the roadside in the English lake District not far from Ambleside, United Kingdom.

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