The megalith temples of Malta
3,600 BCE – 2,500 BCE · Neolithic Mediterraneans
Free-standing stone temples older than the pyramids and older than Stonehenge.
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12,000 yrs ago – 3,300 BCE · The end of the last glacial period. Scale is not linear here.
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Free-standing stone temples older than the pyramids and older than Stonehenge.
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Stone circles in the Nubian desert, aligned to the stars, older than Stonehenge.
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As the last glacial period ended, meltwater raised sea levels and drowned Sundaland. Coastlines that people had lived along for tens of thousands of years went underwater, and the archipelago settled into roughly the shape it has now. A great deal of Philippine prehistory is presumably sitting offshore, submerged, unexcavated.
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