I have been contesting the use of the word 'tomb' in the classifications of all the types for years. Although certain examples certianly ended their usage as tombs, they almost certainly had a wider function.

They're temples and just as today's churches have burials within so did they.

Oh, and bones and cremated remains were found in Newgrange during excavation, so part of his statement is false. It was used for 'burial', but it was probably not its primary function.

I am surprised it is being presented as a 'challenge'. On such *popular* coffee table / library books like, for instance, Peoples of the Stone Age (2,000 CE), Gorus Borluhan clearly states that the only two (or so) bodies found there (unlike in other burial sites) are potential sacrifices, or at least disposed of as such. Not doubting the quality of the new book but do not think the author is bringing up anything new.

Did Enoch write about Newgrange?

"As far as archeology knows, there were no other buildings on this scale anywhere in the world at this early date. And certainly none known to have been built of crystals. Could anyone doubt it? Enoch describes the building to which he was taken as 'a large house built of crystals' and 'the walls of the house were like a tessellated floor of crystals'. We have never seen a building dressed with white quartz crystal before, let alone one that is in the right place and at the right time of Enoch's visit. Furthermore, the description of the wall looking like a tessellated floor is accurate because the quartz is regularly interspersed with water-rounded black rocks that form the diamond shapes across the entire surface... We continued to inspect the site in a state of awe. Could this really be the place described by one of the ancient heroes of Jewish legend, who lived nearly 2,000 years even before Moses was born?"

More than 2,000 years before the time of King Solomon, Enoch visited some structure that embodied the technology needed to rebuild civilisation after a global flood. Knight and Lomas show that megalithic geo-mathematics was highly sophisticated. Dividing a circle into 366 degrees allowed them to relate seconds and minutes to distances on the ground based on the spin of the earth, its mass and its orbit around the sun. The Book of Enoch, rediscovered by an 18th century Freemason, describes in detail how to build a highly complex machine, which could be used to calculate many things about the earth, its movements and have long-term warnings of any comet that was on course for an Earth impact. In the story the designer of the machine is called Uriel.

The revelation that this is the true purpose of the great megalithic sites of Western Europe and that the Book of Enoch contains precise details of such a machine forms the revolutionary thesis contained in Uriel's Machine. Using hard science and their own reconstruction of an ancient technology, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas put forward findings that will change the way we view both the origins of Freemasonry and man's distant past.