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UNESCO World Heritage Site
Knowth, in Irish Cnobha, is a place where there are Neolithic tombs. Knowth is one of the ancient monuments of Brú na Bóinne, which is situated to the north of Dublin. It's an amazing place because not only is it a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but also because the tombs were built thousands of years ago, with reasons that still aren't very well understood, complete with symbols, and a deep knowledge of astronomy or the operation of the sun and stars. That's because this place is intended to let the sun at a particular time of year and other details that scientists have gone to great pains to explain, considering improvements in the "technology" of the time.
Knowth is the most spread out of the three sites there that are open to the public. But it's not like Newgrange, where you get to see inside the tombs. What you see are the tombs, small stone mounds covered with grass, and imagine how they were connected to each other so that the priests or druids could pass from one to another and make their funeral rites. Newgrange I liked because you can go in and actually see what is the Neolithic tomb.
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