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Under the northwest edge of the ziggurat a Stone Temple has been discovered. Ī massive White Temple was built atop of the ziggurat. Ī complex of tombs with varying dates near Poitiers, the oldest being F0.

According to André Malraux it would have been better named 'The Prehistoric Parthenon'. Located in northern Finistère and partially restored. It is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River and between the modern-day Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat and Sibi. Very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern AnatoliaĪ Neolithic archaeological site situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in Pakistan. Is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure, constructed of undressed stones, with an internal staircase of twenty-two steps. The structure is 300 m in diameter and 15 m high.

The tell includes two phases of use, believed to be of a social or ritual nature by site discoverer and excavator Klaus Schmidt, dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BC. The list also contains many large buildings from the Egyptian Age of the Pyramids. There are numerous extant structures that survive in the Orkney islands of Scotland, some of the best known of which are part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. Many of the buildings within the list contain primarily bricks, but most importantly maintain their walls and roof. Occupation sites with older human made structures such as those in Göbekli Tepe do exist, but the structures are monuments and do not meet the definition of building (which can be seen above). The following are amongst the oldest buildings in the world that have maintained the requirements to be such. standing stone rings, such as Stonehenge, also do not count because they are not enclosed and do not have roofs.ĭates for many of the oldest structures have been arrived at by radiocarbon dating and should be considered approximate.cairns, which are simply large piles of loose stones (as opposed to chambered cairns).Neolithic dolmens are extremely numerous, with over 1,000 reported from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany alone. In many instances, that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact.

Dolmens were typically covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (which are included in the list).

dolmens, a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone.

This deliberately excludes ruins of limited height and statues.

contain an enclosed area with at least one entry point.

be largely complete or include building work to this height for most of its perimeter.

incorporate features of building work from the claimed date to at least 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height.

In order to qualify for this list a structure must: This article lists the oldest known surviving free-standing buildings constructed in the world, including on each of the continents and within each country.Ī building is defined as any human-made structure used or interface for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy.