On the days between December 18 and 23, in a spectacular feat of Stone Age engineering, a dawn sunbeam strikes through the “roofbox” opening above the tomb’s entrance, then creeps along the ...

About a half-mile past the entrance to Newgrange, in the Valley of the Boyne, County... Ancient Ireland's mysterious tombs Houston Chronicle Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Newgrange, a nearly 15,000-square-foot mound, ... The stone at the entrance to Newgrange in County Meath, Ireland. Photo: Michelle McMahon / Contributor.

In the Boyne Valley in Ireland, the Newgrange monument has stood unyielding for over 5,200 years. This marvel of engineering, built around 3,200 BC, predates the great pyramids of Giza and ...

The tomb is 5,200 years old - older than the Great Pyramid of Giza - and is also renowned for a winter solstice phenomenon ...

The rising sun travels through a light box above the entrance to Newgrange, and sends a beam of light down the stone-lined passageway to illuminate the inner chamber at its centre.

Built by Stone Age farmers around 3,200 BC, making it older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge, the Newgrange monument is one of Ireland’s most famous heritage sites.

Members of the public gathered at Newgrange in Co Meath for the first time in two years to witness its winter solstice illumination. Built by Stone Age farmers around 3,200 BC, making it older ...

Newgrange passage tomb is one of the earliest and greatest feats of solar alignment, built 1,000 years before Stonehenge. Viewers can see it by lottery only.