Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Saturday 21 July 2018

New archaeology revealed thanks to a brutal heatwave

Some benefits from the heatwave. You can see it extremely clearly in the second video.

The discovery of a 5,500-year-old megalithic tomb in County Meath has been described as the "find of a lifetime" by archaeologists. Two burial chambers, six kerbstones and two suspected satellite tombs have been found during the dig. The find was made at the 18th Century Dowth Hall, within the Brú na Bóinne complex, a Unesco World Heritage site.

The project is being carried out by the agri-technology company Devenish and University College Dublin (UCD). Teams from UCD School of Archaeology and Devenish, the Belfast-based firm which acquired Dowth Hall and its lands in 2013, have been working on the site for more than a year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44850668

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