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...

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Wikipedia List of Oldest Known Surviving Buildings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Official website of the Cairn https://www.barnenez.fr/

Visit to the Cairn with JeanJacques Monnier, specialist in Breton history (in French)    • Cairn de Barnenez, méga mégalithe en ...  

Article in OuestFrance about the time a local mayor tried to bulldoze the Cairn (in French) https://www.ouestfrance.fr/bretagne/...

Hurriyet article about the discovery of a site older than Göbekli Tepe: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/anc...