According to reports, a prehistoric limestone monolith that is expected to be at least 10,000 years old has been found underneath of the Mediterranean Sea. As per reports, archaeologists from Israel and Italy discovered the monolith. They have been studying a series of islands known as the Sicilian Channel Islands.

However, they haven’t properly explained their purpose, like those who have been studying Stonehenge.

According to Emanuele Lodolo, from the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics in Trieste, Italy, “This discovery reveals the technological innovation and development achieved by the Mesolithic inhabitants in the Sicilian Channel region. Such an effort undoubtedly reveals important technical skills and great engineering. Most likely the structure was functional to the settlement”.

Lodolo added that these people were involved in trading with the adjacent islands and it could have been similar to an anchoring system or a lighthouse.

Archaeologists are aware that the people that lived in the Sicilian Channel islands came inland as a result of rising waters approximately 9,500 years ago. It has been revealed in the discovery of the Mediterranean monolith that the islanders were advanced, when it comes to technology.

According to Lodolo and co-author Zvi Ben-Avraham, from the Department of Earth Sciences at Tel Aviv University, the monolith is made of a large, single block that require a extraction, cutting, transportation and installation that definitely shows significant technical skills and engineering. Their findings appeared in an article published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.