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Sun illuminates the mound at Newgrange. The Megalithic Passage Tombs of Newgrange. Are located in the present day County Meath in Irelands Ancient East. The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth were built around 3200BC making them older than Stonehenge. In England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Built by Neolithic farming communities about 5000 years ago, the passage tombs have clear astronomical alignments such as the Winter Solstice Sunrise. At Newgrange and the Equinox Sunrise.
The Origin of the Cult of Horus in Predynastic Egypt. uk - The Decipherment of the Megaliths. Site Map with clickable world map. The Origin of the Cult of Horus. Official Sites Links and Services. And all megalithic sites! UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Megaliths and Megalithic Sites Around the World. Site Map with clickable world map.
The Megaliths of Carnac is a photographic catalogue of megalithic sites - standing stones, stone circles, alignments, dolmen and tumuli - in the Carnac and Locmariaquer region of Brittany, France. All photographs were taken by myself, during trips to the megaliths of Carnac in 1980, 1983, 1994, 1998, and 2002. All photographs are my property and may not be copied or used without my written permission.
It is about eleven years now that I had begun discovering the megaliths of Jharkhand. Bubu, my wife just happened to spot some scarification on a boulder in a site which we happened to visit one leisurely winter morning. She felt these were man made. I immediately dismissed them as being geological. Seconds later I was eating my own words as I stumbled upon a dolmen at that very site itself. It was an enormous monument with a huge capstone placed upon four large boulders. And man, as being the first mega.