Newgrange in Irland wurde 600 Jahre vor den Pyramiden von Bauern der Steinzeit gebaut. Trotz ihres relativen Mangels an Technologie ist die Struktur so gestaltet, dass jedes Jahr nur 17 Minuten Sonnenlicht in der inneren Kammer bei der Wintersonnenwende in die innere Kammer trafen.
https://i.redd.it/e0ho7587i3rf1.jpeg
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Never heard of the place, where about is it?
Newgrange was also constructed under the first iteration of the PWC, or the Public Works Contract.
There is a long passage in the monument, where on the winter solstice light shines directly down the passage for a few minutes. What it proves is that that the builders carefully observed the sun’s movements and aligned the monument with cosmic cycles.
About 5000 years ago.
It was built before stonehenge abd the pyramids. It also proves that the society was organised and highly organised, some of the stone came from miles away. Its about 300 feet across and took a lot of effort to built.
I was there a few years ago, its something special. There’s also a few other monuments there – dowth etc
Would have been built 1,000 years before the pyramids but planning objectives took a while to resolve.
How the hell did they get planning permission for that absolute monstrosity? I’m shocked and appalled, it’s a complete eyesore and should be knocked immediately, it’s a perfectly good location that could be used to build housing.
„Despite their relative technology“. My only issue with some of these posts is that they are somehow surprised that any of these ancient people around the world who built structures for the winter/summer solstices is a surprise. It’s the slippery slope towards the likes of Graham Hancock and et al tripe.
They literally depended on the sun for their farming and survival. Knowing when the winter solstice would have been important because they could then reasonably guess when the growing season would begin again in spring and from that calculate how much of the food left from the harvest they would need to sustain people and animals.
This is probably the origin of the whole winter festival we see across cultures. On a good year, after you work out what’s needed to survive to the spring you have a big party and feast with the excess.
They hardly finished on a long weekend. They could well have been altering it for years to make it just right.
Rarely hear about newgrange without the pyramids mentioned
Ancient estate agent: you’ll get a full 17 mins of sun a year.
Ancient first time buyers: Ah jeez in this market we’ll take it.
Alas! the sponsor’s logo that was highlighted has since eroded. They also sponsored the cursus line dancing….
>…the structure is designed so that only 17 mins of sunlight hit the inner chamber each year
Just like some of the houses built during the Celtic Tiger years. Not much changed in Irish construction over 5000 years.
How is it new of its older than the pyramids. Are you stupid?
That photo on the main page was taken on an iPhone at the time of construction by the foreman on site 😂😂
Where I live, I’m not too far from Newgrange……I’m looking forward to getting fixed line broadband next month!!!
My absolute favorite fact about it is that the light comes into the chamber roughly four minutes after sunrise. Ah, you think, they *almost* got it perfectly timed to the moment of sunrise but not quite.
Well actually.
A researcher calculated the positions of the sun and Earth as they would have been 5,000 years ago, and if you take THAT into account, the light would have entered the chamber EXACTLY at sunrise when it was built.
That’s how good they were.
Source: Computing the Winter Solstice at Newgrange: Comparing Neolithic science to Greek or Roman science
https://www.newgrange.com/winter-solstice-newgrange.htm
I just want to make it clear that you need almost no technology to build something that points at the sun. You can put a stick in the ground and it’ll draw a line with it’s shadow that you want. Finding a woodies for the paint so you can trace the line would have been the hard part.
I only get 17 minutes of sunlight a year too… Don’t see me making a song and dance about it.
I mean are we sure they did it on purpose?
What I particularly love is that Newgrange wasn’t discovered until the late 17th century and excavated fully until the early 1960s-1970s, but pre-dating that period locals claimed of a lost monolith tomb in the area that was astronomically aligned. The skybox wasn’t discovered until the excavations. Essentially word of mouth survived for centuries amongst the locals, was relegated to folklore, and eventually shown to accurate.
Always loved this narrative but it’s looking more and more convincing that the pyramids are thousands of years older, like at minimum 12k+ years old.
That concrete outside ruins it.