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

The summer solstice will occur on Friday, June 20, and it will be both the longest day and shortest night of 2025 in the ...

W hile sixteen lucky were preparing to witness the winter solstice from inside the chamber at Newgrange, another intimate gathering of 100 people, from all walks of life were meeting on the other ...

Built 5000 years ago, the entrance of Newgrange Passage Tomb is aligned with the first rays of the rising sun on the Winter ...

People gather to celebrate the winter solstice in Newgrange, Ireland on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, with dancing, singing and more. The crowd gathered at a Stone Age monument in the Boyne Valley ...

In Ireland, an ancient burial site called Newgrange was built in 3,200 B.C. to allow light into its chamber only during sunrise on the winter solstice, and the monument will livestream the ...

For northern hemisphere dwellers, Summer Solstice - the longest day and the shortest night of our year - is usually ...

Happy Winter Solstice! This year, the traditional pagan holiday fell on Dec. 21, 2023, for the United States, and Dec. 22, 2023, for Europe. Considered to be the longest night of the year, the days… ...

Over 2,000 people gathered at Newgrange in Co Meath for the Winter Solstice - the astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

Newgrange is a prehistoric monument thought to have been built by the Neolithics over 5,000 years ago. ... Co Meath, on the morning of the winter solstice. Photo: PA. Share this article.

Winter solstice is the shortest day of year, ... Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old "passage tomb," was built so that direct sunlight enters the monument through a small opening on winter solstice, ...