Exploring a 5,000 year old Tomb
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Portal Tombs are scattered across the Irish countryside. These monuments, around 5,000 years old, have been sites of ritual for millennia. Generation after generation, while spiritual beliefs changed, these ancient sites often remained sacred. In this podcast, I explore two of these tombs to understand how and why these mysterious tombs were built, and why humans return to particular landscapes over thousands of years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks it's Finn so the countdown is on to my only live show of 2024. |
| 0:05.2 | It's happening at the Cork Podcast Festival. It's on Friday, September the 6th. |
| 0:10.6 | It's an amazing venue that's the deconsecrated St. Luke. I have a super |
| 0:15.6 | lineup arranged. We've got guests, some great stories and it's going to make for a great night of history. |
| 0:21.0 | I hope I'll see you there. You can get tickets in the link in the show notes of the latest episode. |
| 0:25.5 | That's the link in the show notes of the latest episode. |
| 0:30.9 | If I ask you to name the oldest historic figure you've ever heard of, who comes to mind? |
| 0:37.0 | I think for most of us, certainly for me anyway, it's the Egyptian Pharaoh Tootenkamun. |
| 0:42.0 | He lived slightly over 3,000 years ago. the Egyptian Pharaoh Tooten-Kamun. |
| 0:42.6 | He lived slightly over 3,000 years ago, |
| 0:45.4 | and that's an extraordinary amount of time by any measure. |
| 0:48.8 | But in this podcast, I want to venture back much further into an even more distant chapter of our history. |
| 0:55.8 | Well it's really prehistory to a time around 3,500 BC. |
| 1:01.0 | To put this in some context, Tooten-Kamun lived at around the midpoint between the present |
| 1:06.5 | and the time this episode returns to. Now there are only the faintest traces of this world left in the Irish landscape today, but in this |
| 1:15.6 | podcast I'm going to bring you inside one of the few monuments these people left behind, |
| 1:22.0 | the last echoes of their world. These are tombs that are both |
| 1:26.0 | mysterious and fascinating. While they were first erected long before any of the |
| 1:32.0 | major empires of the ancient world emerged, the Romans, the Greeks, |
| 1:36.4 | the Babylonians or the Hittites, these tombs have endured long after they've disappeared |
| 1:42.0 | from the pages of history. |
| 1:44.0 | In this podcast you're going to hear the remarkable story of how people in Ireland |
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