No, of course not. The pyramids are 2000 years older, and the ziggurats are 3000 years older. The oldest astronomical megalith complex was at Nabta, Sahara Desert about 4250 BCE. The oldest monuments, if you mean those of fast and last, are at the oldest civilisations in Sumer and Elam. The oldest ziggurats are the E-unir and E-abzu at Eridu, about 4500 and 4100 BCE; the oldest temple, which was a raised shrine to become a later ziggurat, is the Tappeh at Sialk, about 5500 BCE. America has a boy's barrow from 5500 BCE at L'Anse Amour, Newfoundland-Labrador. Asharq Al-Awsat says the world's oldest monument is Sultan's Hill*, a burg, outside Jèriko, at 9000 BCE. The oldest town, Mureybet, Syria, hosts a goddess figurine from 10000 BCE. The oldest human portrait may be at Grosseto, Italy, at 12000 BCE. The oldest altars and sanctuaries go back to 350,000 and 80,000 BCE. The oldest sentimental art, the head-shapen Makapansgat pebble, is 3 million years old. *Other names: Tell es-Sultan, Tel el-Sultan, Tel al-Sultan, Tel es-Sultan, Tell al-Sultan, Tell el-Sultan, Tell as-Sultan, Tel as-Sultan
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