I've been sitting on this article for a couple of days thinking I would chase down the original story, but that's plainly not going to happen any time soon.

I read this on MSN.

Quote:Scientists Find 8,000-Year-Old Village Beneath Lake Ohrid in Albania

For the past four years, Albert Hafner and his team of Swiss and Albanian archaeologists have been excavating beneath the surface of beautiful Lake Ohrid in Albania, and they have found something that may change the way we understand ancient European people forever.

Lake Ohrid is said to be more than one million years old and is considered one of the oldest lakes in the world. And while the waters are full of lush vegetation, making it extremely difficult to excavate, archaeological divers have made their way through the bottom of this ancient lake and discovered something truly incredible.

They found a village, built almost entirely on stilts, and through radiocarbon dating, they’ve determined that the site was built between 6000 and 5800 BC, making it around 8,000 years old.

Before this amazing finding, the oldest known lakeside village in Europe was found in the Italian Alps and was dated to about 5000 BC. Which means the new site predates the former from anywhere between several hundred and a thousand years.

Read the full article here (and see a beautiful picture of a sunny lake in Albania).

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