DNA From Newgrange Just Proved Ireland's Builders Were Wiped Out by Their Own Royal Family

Newgrange in the Boyne Valley is older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, built c. 3,200 BCE by Neolithic farmers descended from the first farmers of Anatolia. In June 2020, Lara Cassidy and Dan Bradley at Trinity College Dublin published in Nature the genome of an adult man buried in the most sacred chamber — the offspring of a first-degree incestuous union. Sibling-sibling or parent-child, at the very top of the Neolithic Irish ruling class. The pattern matches pharaonic Egypt, Inca royalty, Hawaiian high chiefs. Less than 500 years later, Newgrange's Neolithic builders were replaced by incoming Bell Beaker peoples carrying Steppe ancestry. This video traces what the bones prove about Ireland's first dynasty and how a civilization was wiped out. *SOURCES* Cassidy, Maoldúin, Bradley et al. (2020), Nature — 'A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society' (Nature 582, June 2020): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... Trinity College Dublin press release (Jun 2020): https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articl... Olalde et al. (2018), Nature — 'The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe' (the replacement mechanism): https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... Cassidy et al. (2016), PNAS — 'Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome': https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... Office of Public Works Ireland — Brú na Bóinne / Newgrange visitor site: https://www.heritageireland.ie/places...