Underwater Pyramids

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A STRUCTURE thought to be the world's oldest building, nearly twice the age of the great pyramids of Egypt, has been discovered. The rectangular stone ziggurat under the sea off the coast of Japan could be the first evidence of a previously unknown Stone Age civilisation, say archeologists.

The monument is 600ft wide and 90ft high and has been dated to at least 8000BC. The oldest pyramid in Egypt, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, was constructed more than 5,000 years later.

My Take on the whole thing:
Its a fact that humans have been around for around for at least 195,000 years as a species (Link). Our own recorded history is at most around 8-10,000 years. Its quite ridiculous to think that humans were hunter-gatherers for 90% of their years of history and then suddenly reached the moon in the last 10%. Surely we are smarter than that. Its quite possible that at least 10-15 civilisations as or more advanced than ours has existed in the past. So why dont we find traces of these now?

The fact is, life is fragile, and cataclysmic global events happen more frequently than we think. These events reset civilisations to a zero point and the survivors have to start from scratch. If our civilisation were to fall tomorrow, nature would erase all traces of us within the next 200 years at most. The only things that would withstand the test of time would be massive structures like the pyramids. And these are precisely the kind of structures we keep unearthing.

Analysis of the pyramids in Egypt as well as the Sphinx based on weather erosion shows that these structures are also much older than what was previously thought. By some estimates these are dated back to 16,000 BC! According to conventional historians we were cavemen back then. So who built the darn things? The only logical explanation is that another, previous more advanced civilisation built them.

Kinda makes you think in a fresh light about things like Atlantis, The Adams Bridge, etc.