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Tumuli tagged “solstice”

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Akbeit Kurgan (Akmola Tasmola-Ridge Ancestor)

Tasmola (Early Saka) · Northern Tasmola network

Northern Tasmola horseshoe kurgan 55 km south of Astana: 42-m mound with 18-m mustache avenue to solstice.

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🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith

Newgrange

Neolithic · Irish Middle Neolithic (Boyne Valley)

Grand passage tomb in the Bend of the Boyne with 85 m diameter cairn, decorated kerbstones and cruciform chamber. Famous for winter solstice sunrise illuminating chamber through roof-box.