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Stone Age blueprints are the oldest architectural plans ever found

17 May 2023

Plans etched into stone tablets depict vast hunting traps called desert kites built 9000 years ago, showing a mastery of geometry long before the invention of writing

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Stone Age blueprints are the oldest architectural plans ever found

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