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Ancient 1km Stone Wall Found in Baltic Sea, Potentially Over 10,000 Years Old

<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Researchers have discovered around 1 kilometer long stone wall off the German coast in the Baltic Sea that may be more than 10,000 years old.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">According to media reports, the wall, which researchers first became aware of in 2021, may prove to be the oldest man-made structure to be ever discovered in the Baltic Sea region.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">It said, the structure lies around 10 kilometers from the coast of the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, at a depth of 21 meters. It consists of almost 1,700 tennis and football-sized stones mostly under a meter in height.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The area was flooded some 8,500 years ago, but before that it would have been dry land. Researchers have theorized that the wall was built to trap Reindeer for hunting.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Similar constructions have been found by archaeologists in Lake Michigan in the US which were used for the hunting of Reindeer.</span></p>

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