One of the oldest known “windows”

Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.

May 2014

#Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag

#Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart

Found in a cremation cemetery in #Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the #NeolithicPeriod and a #Roman-era skull.
#Archaeologists #Archaeology #Pommerœul

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-are-bewildered-by-a-skeleton-made-from-the-bones-of-at-least-eight-people-who-died-thousands-of-years-apart-180985419/