Newgrange belongs to the years before the Common Era — dated here to c. 3200 BCE at Boyne Valley, Ireland. The date is a scholarly centre of gravity, not a foundation-stone timestamp.
A passage tomb older than the Great Pyramid, where the winter-solstice sun still fills the chamber through a roof-box.
How it was made
Quartz and granite façade, spiral-carved kerbstones, corbelled vault. It is astronomy you can stand in.
Why it still counts as a wonder
It never needed a Greek list to be a wonder: the labour, the alignment, or the survival is enough.
Reconstruction of the face is debated. The alignment is not.
On dating
BCE in this series means years before the traditional birth of Christ, counted backward. A monument listed as c. 3200 BCE may have been founded earlier, rebuilt later, or famous only in one phase. Where ancient writers disagree — as they do for Babylon’s gardens — we say so.
This is story 77 of 100 in The Trend Ledger’s illustrated desk on world wonders raised before the Common Era.