Maes Howe, the largest burial mound or cairn tomb in Orkney, Scotland, is aligned in such a way that it receives the rays of the setting sun on the night of the winter solstice. Building Maeshowe was a huge undertaking. A circular platform about 38 meters in diameter was cleared and leveled. It consists of an entrance passage, main hall and side chambers. This is the best chambered cairn in northwestern Europe and is believed to have been built around 2700 BC. C., which makes it older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.
Amazing building skills! People are so wowed by the extent of Egyptian riches and civilization they do not appreciate the fact that other peoples were as advanced in skills in earlier times.
ReplyDeleteThat’s the kind of cool stuff that makes me come back here all the time…
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DeleteThe neolithic Anatolian farmers littered Europe with all sorts of megalithic and large earthen works structures. And then there is the monument at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, early neolithic or even late paleolithic.
ReplyDelete4,000 to 5,000 years ago, our own Indo-European ancestors (the guys with the chariots) stumbled across these monuments and didn't know what to make of them.
Newgrange is a 5,200 year old passage tomb located in the Boyne Valley in Ireland. Amazing what the "ancients" were able to do!
ReplyDeleteIreland had the vast majority of all Neolithic stone structures in Europe. New Grange is amazing.
DeleteThe Pyramids in Egypt on the Giza Plateau are circa 12,000 years old if not older. Check out the writings of Graham Hancock.
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Wow. Thanks for this!
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