Thursday, October 21, 2010

Stone Age door unearthed

Archaeologists have found a "fantastically preserved" 5100-year-old door in the Swiss city of Zurich.

The door could have been made in the year 3063 BC, chief archaeologist Niels Bleicher said.

The find is one of the oldest doors ever found in Europe and remarkable "because of the way the planks were held together", Mr Bleicher said.


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