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The Tomb Builders: Wales 4000–3000BC

New exhibition opens at Wrexham County Borough Museum – September 22nd 2008.

Wrexham County Borough Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales have joined forces again to create The Tomb Builders: Wales 4000–3000BC – a new exhibition exploring the prehistoric heritage of Wales.

It was our Stone Age ancestors who created Wales’ first monuments: a series of giant burial chambers. Six thousand years later these truly ancient monuments still stand in a much changed landscape. But who were the people who built these great tombs? What were their lives like? Why did they go to all this effort? These are the questions this exhibition explores and asks you to ponder.

The Tomb Builders exhibition has been created by the Department of Archaeology & Numismatics at the National Museum Cardiff and Wrexham County Borough Museum. Based on an award winning book by Dr Steve Burrow, it features collections that have never before been displayed in north Wales. The Tomb Builders exhibition divides into two parts – life and death, with the two being linked by an audio-visual showing the Midsummer solstice at Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic burial chamber on Anglesey.

Elsewhere in the exhibition you’ll get the chance to see how our Neolithic ancestors dressed thanks to a reproduction costume based on the Ice Man found in the South Tyrol in northern Italy.

The exhibition opens on September 22nd 2008 and is on show until December 15th 2008. Admission is free.

SPECIAL EVENT

Return of the Tomb Builders

Saturday 4th October 2008, 11.00am – 3.00pm at Wrexham Museum

Travel back in time six thousand years. Witness the skills of our ancestors. Handle the tools they would have used. Suitable for adults and children. FREE.

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