Did archaeologists find a 1 million-year-old artificial underground complex?
The archaeological site in question consists of approximately 3,500 well-studied underground chambers across various complexes, which extend across what is now central Israel.
A social media claim offers no peer-reviewed scholarship in support of the idea of a million-year-old structure, and leading archaeological institutions say the man-made caves are only a few thousand years old. Human ancestors alive 1 million years ago would not have had the tools to create the structures found in the caves.
David Ilan, director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, says, "There are no such 1,000,000 year old underground complexes. At that point in time we are talking about Homo erectus, who could fashion course stone tools and perhaps light a fire, but there is zero evidence for carving stone or creating architecture."
