Ancient incest intrigue in Ireland

…..At a site called the Newgrange passage tomb — an elaborate, 5,000-year-old burial site north of Dublin (pictured above) and one of the earliest Stone Age monuments in Europe — the team discovered that "an individual buried in the most ornate recess… was an adult male whose parents could only be first-degree relatives," Live Science contributor Tom Metcalfe wrote.

That must mean that the man (likely a king or other person of high status) had parents who were brother and sister — or else parent and child, though that scenario is much rarer throughout history, Metcalfe wrote…..

https://www.livescience.com/50717-amazing-images.html