Newgrange: The Incredible Monument that Predates the Pyramids

[@axesofebil]

It's most astonishing feature is that it's waterproof in Ireland

[@SalMinella]

Maybe it’s ‘Cork’ed

[@splifstar85]

Is it in Ireland or on the territory illegally occupied by the English 🐷?

[@axesofebil]

@@splifstar85 As a Russian I can see why that would be confusing for you

[@gaffo6510]

All Newgrange and Tara hill is way cooler than he says He forgot the coolest part! every summer and winter solstice the entrance to the tombs are positioned so the chambers are completely illuminated! im irish, lived in meath for 12+ years every school nearby and far tours there at least once, also Tara hill where the liberty caps grow as far as the eyes can see litterally miles on hilly fields that some have tombs in, its proper old

[@adamgeigerjr6995]

been in dozens of these from my travels to Skyrim …

[@maxdanielj]

Although I'm guessing this one is draugur free

[@adamgeigerjr6995]

@@maxdanielj maybe the puzzle is still unsolved for the next room

[@billyelliot4141]

Goddamn crypt lich Kings jumping outta boxes. Feckers. 😢

[@smalachit1571]

Funny how structures built by ancient people still stand, while modern ones just crumble to bits within a few dozen years if left alone.

[@donaldwert7137]

Planned obsolescence on the part of the modern builders.

[@SKELTER.]

Aliens? That's ludicrous! It was obviously giants.

[@josemoneyyshark8541]

That too, is also absurd to consider my guy/lady, with little to no effort required for locating sufficient evidence backing up said claim; it's obviously in plain sight that a society of Ancient Alien Giants are the original architects and builders of this

[@rhov-anion]

Giants using fairy magic, come on now.

[@yobgodababua1862]

Not just incredibly well built in that it's survived this well, but it's also perfectly aligned so the Solstice sunrise, and only the solstice sunrise, shines allllll the way into the innermost chamber and illuminates it beautifully. I've been there. Joke about aliens all you want, but the truth is that early humans had mad skills.

[@iteerrex8166]

Yeah, they traveled across the galaxy, with all kinds of very advanced technologies, and build a stone cave.

[@RHCole]

The interior was modeled after female reproductive tracts, so most definitely Human males built this thing 👍🏻

[@jamesleggett9644]

Also Simon (the youtuber here) is a huuuge skeptic and doesnt believe aliens have ever visited us, hes just a sarcastic SOB lol

[@matthewgauthier7251]

Cool. Thanks. The perimeter walls were rebuilt recently, was basically just a big mound for millennia until that reconstruction.

[@Dyl158]

What sets it apart is its astonishing astronomical alignments, how the passage allows beams of light from the rising sun on the winter solstice to engulf the inner corridor, it did not stand like how it looks today it was rebuilt in the 1900’s

[@adriaanpatel-coetzee8480]

Whistle boy jumps on the shorts train!!!!!

[@Sienisota]

Aliens masquerading as the Fae

[@MadHatterDJ-]

Definitely aliens, even looks like a flying saucer 😆

[@donaldwert7137]

Maybe it IS a flying saucer. One made of stone. And it crash landed there. Yeah! That's it! And all those decorations are actually the controls, they just need power. (You're welcome, History Channel.)

[@olddirtymongrrel]

It's Ireland so definitely the fae.

[@Griffix96]

The white rock wall face is only a few decades old. The stones were on the ground, but somebody thought they looked better as a wall. They basically had to glue the stones into the wall. They were too round to stack.

[@Driver2616]

The white quartz facade was found by the archaeologists collapsed down from the front of the tomb where it captures the winter solstice sunrise and emits an amber glow that can be seen as an aura for miles across the valley. It was reconstructed back up during the 1960’s and 1970’s to the way it had originally been over 5,000 years ago.

[@xxMelaniexx]

The Simon universe is making shorts. We evolve

[@danamorrison1536]

Though I still prefer the long ones! But I will watch or listen to anything made by Whistler!

[@peterthompson1462]

Aliens my arse. My grandad told me he was there digging trenches as JCBs hadn't been invented yet!!!@

[@marcmele6416]

Cool fact, fact boi

[@benrogan9239]

Simon you never mentioned that it was designed to allow light to flow through the whole chamber on the 21st of December

[@Engineeringnome]

Now we wait for Short projects. 👍

[@MrV774]

The pyramids predate egypt 🙃

[@Jiburley]

When he says "..or it was aliens" I almost lost it.. Hhahahahahahahhaha

[@Spartan1-1]

0:15 air benders?

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

Simon doing Shorts!

[@Symbiote_Coyote]

Shorts, now, whistler?

[@furiacabocla2furiacabocla589]

Even today would be very hard to cut, move and assemble all the rocks.

[@brs690]

I come to shorts to take a break from factboy now he's here. This was inevitable and I'm equally as shocked that he's here and it took him so long to get here.

[@chrisshorten4406]

I've always wanted to visit there!

[@zigm7420]

You should... it’s amazing!

[@chrisshorten4406]

@@zigm7420 I believe it

[@3VILmonkey]

I used this structure as a precedence for a project when I was a 2nd Year in architecture school. It's pretty damn fascinating but (unlike the Egyptian pyramids, frankly) we know how it was built so definitely not ETs or giants. I mean, it's a massive achievement for that unknown architect but definitely not impossible at the time.

[@landonpotts6815]

Great video

[@Aztesticals]

Damn so thats what those Nordic ruins were based on.

[@antiisocial]

It's always aliens. Lol

[@kenmcclellan]

Look carefully at the symbols and you will realize it was built to remember an apocalypse. Useful information in these times ...

[@BLAZERYT2001]

Side never disappoints us, he's an incredible Content Creator and always creates masterpieces. His content is amazing.

[@scizorlord5126]

Side? Is there a joke here that I'm missing?

[@jasper7713]

you didn’t talk about the winter solstice)-:

[@maxdanielj]

This is just a short, there's a 22 minute video on geograpics

[@maxdanielj]

It's also covered in a sideprojects video about 7 lesser known ancient marvels

[@jasper7713]

@@maxdanielj thank you for explaining the concept of short form content to me -_-

[@hugostiglitz6914]

You left out the fact that its aligned with the sun so that on the solstice the sun lights yp the inner chamber. And there's no evidence it has ever leaked in 5000 years, in Ireland that's impressive!😊

[@eileenlocke7877]

Amazing

[@davidbenner2289]

It was before built as a place to hide their whiskey.

[@mooncowtube]

Simon! It's never aliens! :-)

[@brooklyn9398]

First nothing predates the Giza Plateau Because clearly In the good book Adam Noah Moses And Christ Were learned in Egyptian Studies Which is the Lexicon for Christianity Before Man could comprehend.

[@Driver2616]

Pity you don’t comprehend…..

[@andremartel828]

Gina is very much older.

[@billyelliot4141]

It's 7000 years old.

[@iulianispas8634]

Stonehenge is overrated

[@cooltubes547]

✋Aliens🤚

[@MrEnte3000]

Teletubbie Land

[@ChIGuY-town22_]

Definitely aliens.

[@DankTheGank]

Wow y'all making shorts now? Fuck

[@stephencunniffe823]

The monument was altered heavily on the outside. Its believed it would have been impossible for it too be built the way it is currently due to the materials used in its reconstruction. The guy who worked on it did a lot of horrific damage to it as he was only guessing what it looked like. There is another tomb near by that some believe is more likely to be how it is meant to look.

[@Driver2616]

And your qualifications are?

[@stephencunniffe823]

@@Driver2616 the damage he did to the monument is thought in Irish Schools to anyone doing Newgrange as part of there leaving cert. Also instead of asking people on the internet what there qualifications are I would learn how Google works.

[@Driver2616]

@@stephencunniffe823 : Ahh. I can extrapolate from the construction of your recent reply that you don’t actually hold any qualifications…..

[@stephencunniffe823]

@@Driver2616 considering you have provided no qualification of your own and seem incapable of using Google that is rich.

[@Driver2616]

@@stephencunniffe823 : I don’t need google. I’ve got a lot better than that 🤣

[@milesduggan4996]

I'm going to tell the aliens about you Simon👽👽👽 They probably like smooth brains🐸🐸💯❤️