Newsweek: Temple Complex Dated Almost 12,000 Years Old

[delabarre]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844/page/1

If the dating is correct these standing stones are the oldest monuments on the planet, full stop, many thousands of years older than the pyramids, and lending (in my mind) additional credence to Schoch & Coxill's hydroerosion dating of the Sphinx (which is widely disbelieved by aegyptologists and

Comments

[rhiannon14]

It's very intriguing- I would love to know exactly how they dated it. I will poke around for more information. I've heard of this place before, but not such early dates for it.

[delabarre]

Since they are excavating the stones, I am assuming that they are going by depth of burial.