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Fascinating new revelations show that 90% of the people buried at Fourknocks were cremated

Fascinating new revelations show that 90% of th...

Fascinating new revelations about the people buried at Fourknocks over 5,000 years ago include the fact that 90% of them were cremated, and two adult males had received but recovered...

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Fascinating new revelations show that 90% of th...

Fascinating new revelations about the people buried at Fourknocks over 5,000 years ago include the fact that 90% of them were cremated, and two adult males had received but recovered...

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Tribute: Jack Roberts – a true pioneer of Irish megalithic research

Tribute: Jack Roberts – a true pioneer of Irish...

Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland pays tribute to his late friend, the author and megalithic astronomy pioneer Jack Roberts, who passed away in June 2024.

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Tribute: Jack Roberts – a true pioneer of Irish...

Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland pays tribute to his late friend, the author and megalithic astronomy pioneer Jack Roberts, who passed away in June 2024.

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Centuries before the Greeks, the Irish held their own Olympic Games that lasted for thousands of years

Centuries before the Greeks, the Irish held the...

Centuries before the Greeks established their Olympic Games, Ireland had its own huge games event. In this article, I explore the traditions of the Tailteann Games, inaugurated to commemorate Tailtiu,...

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Centuries before the Greeks, the Irish held the...

Centuries before the Greeks established their Olympic Games, Ireland had its own huge games event. In this article, I explore the traditions of the Tailteann Games, inaugurated to commemorate Tailtiu,...

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A complex medieval farming landscape revealed by new crop marks near Newgrange

A complex medieval farming landscape revealed b...

Anthony Murphy imaged a fascinating complex of probable early medieval ringforts and associated field systems at Littlegrange, Co. Louth, just north of the Brú na Bóinne complex and 1.6 miles...

A complex medieval farming landscape revealed b...

Anthony Murphy imaged a fascinating complex of probable early medieval ringforts and associated field systems at Littlegrange, Co. Louth, just north of the Brú na Bóinne complex and 1.6 miles...

I found a large hilltop enclosure in Meath with my drone - but what is it? Could it be another Dronehenge?

I found a large hilltop enclosure in Meath with...

In this long-read blog post, Anthony Murphy discusses various possibilities as to what his newly discovered hilltop enclosure monument near Fourknocks might be.

I found a large hilltop enclosure in Meath with...

In this long-read blog post, Anthony Murphy discusses various possibilities as to what his newly discovered hilltop enclosure monument near Fourknocks might be.

MAJOR DISCOVERY: previously unrecorded henge-like monument found today near Fourknocks - a henge within a henge?

MAJOR DISCOVERY: previously unrecorded henge-li...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT - 7th JULY 2024 POSSIBLE UNRECORDED HENGE DISCOVERED NEAR FOURKNOCKS DRONEHENGE 2? A copy of the Newgrange henge discovered in 2018? Almost six years since I discovered the huge...

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MAJOR DISCOVERY: previously unrecorded henge-li...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT - 7th JULY 2024 POSSIBLE UNRECORDED HENGE DISCOVERED NEAR FOURKNOCKS DRONEHENGE 2? A copy of the Newgrange henge discovered in 2018? Almost six years since I discovered the huge...

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