What is the oldest and biggest man-made structure?

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the ancient world wonders, and the only one that is still intact today. It weighs an estimated 6 million tonnes—and rising up at 481 feet (147 meters), it was unsurpassed as the tallest structure for thousands of years.
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What is the oldest man-made structure?

Stone Wall at Theopetra Cave

The stone wall at the entrance of Theopetra Cave in Greece is the oldest ruins in the world — it is believed to be the oldest man-made structure ever found.
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What is the tallest structure ever built by man?

The Burj Khalifa's 2,722 feet gives it the undisputed and well-recognized status as the tallest man-made structure in the world.
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What is the largest structure on earth?

Satellite photograph of the Great Barrier Reef situated off the northeastern coast of Australia. Stretching for 1,429 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 square miles , the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world.
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What is older than Stonehenge?

Arthur's Stone dates to around 3700 B.C.E., making it a millennium older than Stonehenge, which was constructed around 2500 B.C.E.
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Is Stonehenge the oldest structure in the world?

Oldest Structures: Megalithic Temples, Malta

Dating back to 3,500 to 2,500 BCE, the Megalithic Temples of Malta are some of the oldest structures in the world. As the name suggests, they are a group of stone temples older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
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What is the oldest thing on earth?

What is this? The zircon crystals from Australia's Jack Hills are believed to be the oldest thing ever discovered on Earth. Researchers have dated the crystals to about 4.375 billion years ago, just 165 million years after the Earth formed.
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What is the oldest human?

The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.
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Which animal is the oldest?

Jellyfish

Jellyfish are the oldest multi-organ animal in the world and have existed in some form for at least 500 million years.
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Which is older pyramids or Stonehenge?

Estimated as being erected in 3100 BC, Stonehenge was already 500-1,000 years old before the first pyramid was built.
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What is the oldest famous landmark?

Top 10 Oldest Landmarks in the World
  • Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. The prehistoric monument was built in 3000 BC to 2000 BC. ...
  • Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. ...
  • Cenotes, Mexico. ...
  • Pyramids, Giza, Egypt. ...
  • The Great Wall of China. ...
  • Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. ...
  • Tegallalang Rice Terrace, Bali, Indonesia. ...
  • Moai, Easter Island.
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What year was 10000 years ago?

10,000 years ago (8,000 BC): The Quaternary extinction event, which has been ongoing since the mid-Pleistocene, concludes.
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What is older than pyramids?

Thousands of monumental structures built from walls of rock in Saudi Arabia are older than Egypt's pyramids and the ancient stone circles of Britain, researchers say – making them perhaps the earliest ritual landscape ever identified.
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What was built before Stonehenge?

Before Stonehenge

The earliest structures known in the immediate area are four or five pits, three of which appear to have held large pine 'totem-pole like' posts erected in the Mesolithic period, between 8500 and 7000 BC.
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What came before Stonehenge?

Gobekli Tepe was built 6,000 years before Stonehenge, and the exact meaning of its carvings – like the world the people there once inhabited – is impossible to fathom.
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What is the oldest building still in use?

The Pantheon is the oldest building in the world that's still in use today. Since the 7th century, it has been a Roman Catholic church. Built around 125 A.D. by the Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus, it was actually the third iteration of the structure.
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What is the oldest wooden building in the world?

The Horyu-ji temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan, was constructed 607 AD and is one of 48 ancient buildings protected by UNESCO in the area.
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Is the Sphinx older than the pyramids?

The most common wisdom holds that the monolith is around 4,500 years old, and was built for Khafre, a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty who lived circa 2603-2578 B.C. His pyramid is the second tallest of the pyramids built at Giza, next to his father Khufu's Great Pyramid.
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Which is older the Great Wall of China or the Egyptian pyramids?

The Great Wall of China is thought to be roughly 2,300 years old, whereas the oldest pyramid and Sphinx of Giza in Egypt are thought to be over 4,500 years old.
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Which is older the pyramids or the Colosseum?

The Great Pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.
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Which animal blood is green?

BATON ROUGE – Green blood is one of the most unusual characteristics in the animal kingdom, but it's the hallmark of a group of lizards in New Guinea. Prasinohaema are green-blooded skinks, or a type of lizard.
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Who is the oldest person alive 2021?

With the passing of Japan's Kane Tanaka at the age of 119 this week, the title of 'oldest living human' has been bequeathed to the French born Lucile Randon.
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