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What's The Oldest Surviving Building On Earth?

The Tim Traveller Jul 14, 2022 16:47
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What is the world's oldest surviving building? It feels like one of those questions we should all know the answer to. Surely it's somewhere like the Pyramids, or Stonehenge? Nope: there are buildings way older than that, and arguably the oldest of them all is a relatively unknown site in France. I went to Brittany to investigate further... INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ MORE INFO: Wikipedia List of Oldest Known Surviving Buildings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_known_surviving_buildings Official website of the Cairn - https://www.barnenez.fr/ Visit to the Cairn with Jean-Jacques Monnier, specialist in Breton history (in French) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilyYxpe6bHY Article in Ouest-France about the time a local mayor tried to bulldoze the Cairn (in French) - https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/finistere/quand-la-pelleteuse-rongeait-le-cairn-de-barnenez-5424148 Hurriyet article about the discovery of a site older than Göbekli Tepe: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-site-older-than-gobeklitepe-unearthed-149494
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