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The most ancient buildings on Earth serve for modern man as a memory of those who built them many centuries ago.
Most of the buildings are built from huge stone slabs, many of them are located in areas that are currently uninhabited. Despite persistent research, their age is also determined only approximately.
Modern people, looking at such buildings and structures, are only surprised how in ancient times it was possible to create such things without improvised tools.
The following article provides a list of the 10 most ancient buildings in the world, which help to find out what life was like for people thousands of years ago.
10 Royal Grave (Sweden)
The Royal Tomb in Sweden was discovered by an archaeologist named Hallström Gustav during excavations that have been ongoing since 1931. The building is located 320 meters from the coast of the eastern coast of the province of Scania.
Researchers suggest that the structure was erected in the Bronze Age, at least 3000 years ago. After the discovery of the Royal Tomb and the restoration of the interior, various images were seen on its walls, for example, ships, birds, animals and fish.
The tomb is located in the city of Minorca, which is located in Spain. Scientists believe that its age is more than 3200 years. The building was used for its intended purpose in the period from 1200 to 750. BC.
Its shape is quite interesting, outwardly it looks like an inverted boat, stone blocks served as the material for its construction. The burial place was found in the 1975 century, the remains of more than a hundred people and their things, for example, bronze bracelets, ceramic buttons, were found in it.
Today, anyone can visit the tomb, it is open and is one of the main attractions of the city of Minorca.
8. Treasury of Atreus (Greece)
This place has another name – “Tomb of Agamemnon”, it is located in the city of Mycenae in Greece. It is believed that the treasury was built over 3250 years ago, during the Bronze Age. It is one of the most impressive monuments of ancient architecture, has a monumental size. Previously, the treasury also had the largest and widest dome among the greatest buildings in the world.
7. Caral (Peru)
Caral is the oldest settlement in Peru. Its territory was about 60 hectares, a large number of pyramids were built on it. Humans have inhabited the city for over 4600 years.
During archaeological excavations, scientists found many musical instruments, stone jewelry, household items, but did not find weapons. Because of this, the researchers considered that the population of the city, who lived in it in the period from 2600 BC to 2000 AD. was quite peaceful and engaged in trade without waging wars.
6. Pyramid of Djoser (Egypt)
The pyramid is the oldest surviving stone structure in the world. It was erected by Imhotep for the burial of the Egyptian pharaoh Djoser around 2650 BC. The height of the structure is more than 60 meters, and the dimensions are 125 * 115 meters.
The pyramid is a six-level building, which has been perfectly preserved to this day, only slightly covered with sand. She became the first pyramid in ancient Egypt and served as a prototype for the construction of others.
The core of the structure consists of limestone blocks. The tomb was erected not only for the pharaoh, but also for all members of his family, archaeologists discovered 11 burial chambers, Djoser’s body was not found. The tomb was subjected to numerous robberies in ancient times.
5. Hulbjerg Jættestue (Danish)
The tomb is located on the island of Langeland, located in Denmark. The structure was built over 5000 years ago from 13 stone blocks that fit snugly together. During archaeological excavations, the remains of at least 400 people were found in the tomb.
Scientists were interested in the teeth of one of the buried, they were clearly treated. The level of the oldest “dentists” amazed modern researchers, as the filling was inserted into the tooth very well.
4. Newgrange (Ireland)
Newgrange is a corridor tomb located in Ireland. Scientists date its origin to 2500 BC. The building is located about 40-45 km from Dublin. The height of the building is more than 13 meters, and the diameter is about 85 meters. A corridor 19 meters long leads to the burial chamber.
Inside the tomb there was a ritual bowl, niches were punched in its walls, which are decorated with stone carvings, all this has survived to this day. The building was discovered in 1699, but its full-scale research began in 1962.
3. Monte d’Accoddi (Italy)
The oldest temple is located on the territory of Sardinia, was built more than 5000 years ago. By the Bronze Age, the building was abandoned, until this period it served as a place for religious ceremonies.
During the Second World War, the temple was badly damaged, since the 1950s. it began to be restored, it is currently a tourist attraction.
2. Knap of Howar (Scotland)
The stone house is located in Scotland, its age is at least 5500 years, the building belongs to the Neolithic era. It is considered one of the oldest stone houses in Northern Europe that have survived to this day.
The structure was a farm that consisted of two buildings adjacent to each other, it had low doorways, no windows, light entered the house through a smoke hole on the roof. To date, walls, stone furniture, such as stoves, beds, shelves for things, have remained from the stone manor.
1. Megalithic Temples of Malta
The Maltese temples were built at least a thousand years before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Most of the monolithic stone slabs that make up the structure weighed more than 50 tons.
Researchers have not yet unraveled the mystery of how it was built without special equipment. In the world, similar buildings have not been found anywhere, so scientists also could not find out which civilization erected temples and where it disappeared.