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Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’

Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’

Structure stretches for almost a kilometre off coast of Germany and may have once stood by a lake

A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say.

The wall, which stretches for nearly a kilometre along the seafloor in the Bay of Mecklenburg, was spotted by accident when scientists operated a multibeam sonar system from a research vessel on a student trip about 10km (six miles) offshore.

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