5,000 years ago in Ireland

There's a place in Ireland called "Newgrange". A tomb complex in County Meath, built around 3100BC around the time of the Egyptian empire! It's an impressive construction and it's open to the public. And it's over 5,000 years old, making it older than Stonehenge and older than the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Fooo Kmee that's ancient!

Saint Brendan (or St Brandan) (484–577)

Irish abbot and traveller. Born in Tralee, now in County Kerry, he is traditionally regarded as the founder of the monastery of Clonfert in County Galway (561), as well as other monasteries in Ireland and Scotland. The 8th-century Irish epic Voyage of St Brendan recounts his legendary journey across the Atlantic to a ‘land of saints’. His feast day is 16 May. St Brendan is believed to have studied under the abbess St Ita in Limerick and abbot St Jarlath in Tuam. His first appointment as abbot was at Ardfert.

The location of the land to which St Brendan is supposed to have voyaged is unclear. Some authorities place it far to the north (the Hebrides, the Northern Isles, or even Iceland), while others have speculated that it may have been the Canary Islands. Some ancient maps show ‘St Brendan's country’ lying west of the Cape Verde Islands.

I have read several translated accounts of his journeys, suffering great hardships and surviving on faith, fishing, even eating the seagulls that went after his fish! These boats carried up to 60 people at a time. Lots of material on the internet if you are interested. I read that he got as far as Newfoundland and discovered ancient Nordic burial sites which possibly pre date Christ.

See - The ancients were just as intelligent and with fewer resources at their hands. Proves that we are not as smart as we think we are with our technology!

:-)