A new book challenges the claim that the 5,200-year-old Stone Age monument at Newgrange was a burial tomb. Chris O'Callaghan, author of "Newgrange Temple to Life" argues that the classification of Newgrange as a passage-grave "seriously misrepresents" what the ancient people who built the monument were about.
O'Callaghan said there was "no sign . . . that Newgrange had been used as a catacomb, a mortuary, necropolis, royal or otherwise, or a crematorium. Despite the assumptions, there is not the faintest evidence that Newgrange had ever been used as any sort of dedicated repository for bodies, bones, burial artefacts or ash."
http://www.mythicalireland.com[...]s/newgrange/newgrange-book.php
Reply | with quote | Posted by mythicalireland 14th April 2004ce 21:01 |
Newgrange was not a tomb, says author (mythicalireland, Apr 14, 2004, 21:01)- Re: Newgrange was not a tomb, says author (odysseus, Apr 15, 2004, 01:49)
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