Boyne valley tombs, also known as Brú na Bóinne, is a region in County Me

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Boyne valley tombs, also known as Brú na Bóinne, is a region in County Meath, Ireland, situated where the River Boyne makes a curve. One of the most significant Neolithic archaeological landscapes in the world is found there, along with more than ninety more structures, including the enormous Megalithic passage graves of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth. The Boyne Culture is the name given to the archaeological culture connected to these locations. The location has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993. The region is situated in a bend of the River Boyne, around eight kilometres west of Drogheda in County Meath, Ireland. North of Dublin, it is situated around 40 kilometres away. The Boyne river surrounds the Brú na Bóinne site on its southern, western and eastern direction. In addition, a minor branch of the Boyne, the River Mattock, also flows along the northern tip, encircling Br na Bóinne with water almost entirely. All but two of the prehistoric settlements are on this river peninsula. Although there have been people living in this area for at least 6,000 years, the earliest significant buildings date to the Neolithic era, about 5,000 years ago. A system of Neolithic mounds, chamber tombs, standing stones, henges and other ancient enclosures can be found at the location, some of which date back as far as the thirty-fifth to thirty-second centuries BCE. This means that the structure precedes the Egyptian pyramids and was constructed with complexity and a proper working understanding of science and astronomy, which is particularly clear in the passage grave at Newgrange. The north bank of the river is where the bulk of the structures are located. The construction of the passage tombs began approximately 3,300 BCE and ended around 2,900 BCE. The three biggest tombs at Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth could have been built to be visible from one another as well as from the accesses through the northern and southern banks of River Boyne. Up until the initial Bronze Age, when a number of embankment, pit and wooden post circles—commonly known as Henges—were constructed, the region was still utilized for dwelling and ritual. Compared to earlier Bronze Age artefacts, only some burnt mounds, cist burials and ring ditch burials are relatively unnoticeably found in later Bronze Age. Also only occasional activity during the Iron Age is visible in the form of cemeteries at Knowth and at Rosnaree. Near Newgrange, precious Roman devotional gifts including coins and jewellery have been discovered. #History #Architecture

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