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Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland

Stelaes, Monte Alban, a large pre-Columbian archaeological site, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan Municipality, Oaxaca State. UNESCO World Heritage

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….

Kerb stones at Newgrange chambered passage tomb

A Viking burial site, Mon, Denmark

Avebury West Kennet Long barrow neolithic burial chamber exterior view

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.

The Hill of Tara, located near the River Boyne, is an archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Ireland. It contains a number of ancient monuments and, according to tradition, was the seat of the High King of Ireland.

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

Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland

County Meath, Ireland - June 1, 2016. Tourist at the entrance to Newgrange in County Meath, it was built during the Neolithic period, around 3200 BC.

Prehistoric Loughcrew Tomb complex of County Meath, Ireland

Kilclooney Dolmen is a Neolithic portal tomb located in County Donegal, Ireland. It is one of the finest examples of a portal tomb in Ireland and is estimated to be around 4000 to 4500 years old. The dolmen consists of a large capstone supported by three upright stones, creating a chamber that would have been used for burial purposes.

megalithic burial mound knowth Drogheda County Meath Ireland

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

Kilbroney Park is a park near Rostrevor and is great for leisure like hiking, children playing etc.

Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland

County Meath, Ireland - June 1, 2016. Panoramic shot of a group of tourists at Newgrange in County Meath, it was built during the Neolithic period, around 3200 BC.

World heritage in Ireland. Beautiful blue sky on the white stone structure. Close look on the stone wall. The entrance of the building. Several people visited the site.

The ancient stone circle at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland just before dawn. The stones are of Lewisian gneiss and stand from two to almost five metres high, forming a near circle about eleven metres in diameter. Little is known of the neolithic builders who erected the stones between 2600BC and 2900BC, but a solitary visit to the site before the sun rises will stir feelings of mystery and wonder amongst even the most secular of minds. AdobeRGB colorspace.

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.

County Meath, Ireland - 12th November 2014: Brú na Bóinne or Boyne valley tombs, is an area in County Meath, Ireland, located in a bend of the River Boyne.

Porirua, New Zealand, 1-25-2012. Monument with Maori symbols, commemorating a battle between Maori and English in the 19th century. Battle Hill Farm Forest Park, Pauatahanui, Porirua, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand.

The Slieve League cliffs on the west coast of Donal, Ireland, are one of the highest sea cliffs in the world.

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Reconstructed doorway of a bishops farm in the Norsemen settlement Gardar in the arctic summer in Igaliku in the south western part of Greenland. The Norsemen left the place in the beginning of the 15th century and the modern excavations are today a public park in the small village

Monument at Stonehenge was built by neolithic people about 5000 years ago. The sarsen rocks, sand stones harder than granite, were moved over 25 miles, from the Avon river, to the site on the Salisbury plain, by teams of men. These rocks weighed up to forty tons and were probably moved on wooden rollers shaped from felled trees, as shown in the picture.

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.

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