How Architecture has changed over the years PART 1 (5 oldest man made structures)

It’s been always intriguing to us, humans to find out when was the first for everything was made. For the most parts we have only been able to go back to when things were recorded. In today’s time archaeologist have reopened a whole lot of new discoveries that perhaps date back well before records were ever written. Here are some of mankind’s builds, thought to have been built Thousands of years before any records were written.

1. Theopetra caves stone wall
   (In the region of 21000BC)
   This cave can be found near Meteora .The work done here is unique. The wall has been built to cover the entrance to the Theopetra cave. Covering around two-thirds it is suggested by most archaeologist that, it might have been to block winds. The inhabitants of that time might have chosen this spot because of the access to clean water.

1. Gobekli tepe
   (In the region of 10000BC)

Found around six mile from Urfa, Turkey. Klaus Schmidt, an archaeologist made this most amazing discovery, said to be the greatest of our time. He discovered large, massive carved stones that could have only been made by primitive people. He added that the constructors wouldn’t have had metal tools or pottery to help them construct. This German archaeologist is convinced this site is the oldest man made structure ever.

1. Tell Qaramel
   (In the region of 9650BC)

Found in Syria, Tell Qaramel is a archaeological mound (or an Arabic word tell) 25 km north of Aleppo ,near river Quweiq. A Syrian team led by Prof Rysverd F Mazurowski of Warsaw University and Dr Youssef Kanjou of Dgam, after checking the sticking method and looked at structures with similar carvings have suggested that it might have been developed many years earlier than originally thought. Perhaps far back to 9650 BC. Making it the oldest tower and precedes the once thought Jericho tower by roughly 2000 years.

1. Tell es-sultan/Jerichio wall
   (In the region of 8000BC)

The wall, built under Tell es-sultan, was built to prevent floods. In the Bible, Joshua narrates, the Israelites destroyer the wall of Jericho by walking around it, with the Ark on Covenant for seven days and on the last day they blew trumpets of rams' horns and shouted to make the walls fall down. This event is speculated to have happened around 1400 BC .Later in 1950’s Kathleen Kenyon’s an archaeologist rebuild the wall. Not all of the structure in the Jericho wall can be dated back to 8000 BC, as there is evidence of inheritance in this area, throughout history.

1. Nevali cori
   (In the region of 8000BC)
   This site is found in Sanliurfa Province, Turkey and boosts having the world’s most ancient temples and Sculptures. Built 490 m above sea level and have channels 1 metre ensuring air ventilation creating a refrigerator kind of development. So it can be safely said that this is the first man made ‘fridge’.