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A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza. The discovery is part of a wider underwater site where archaeologists have now mapped 16 canoes, offering rare evidence of long-term Indigenous travel and lake use across thousands of years reports Earth.com . it is mind blowing that such organic objects have survived underwater as long as some of the oldest stone structures in the world. A “canoe parking lot” Spanning Millennia The Wisconsin Historical Society says the canoes are grouped in two distinct clusters and appear to represent repeated use of the same shoreline