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Maritime archaeologists – AKA, the coolest job ever – working off the coast of Sicily have discovered a 10,000-year-old monolith structure. They believe the Stonehenge-esque monument served as a lighthouse.

Scientists found the structure more than 120 feet below the surface on a sea mount that was once a civilized island—that is before a massive flood 9,500 years ago. The Last Glacial Maximum covered many islands in the Sicilian Channel with 100-plus feet of ocean, and researchers are only now discovering clues to human activity.

Aside from finding a massive prehistoric lighthouse, the discovery is significant as it begins to piece together the culture of humans that once inhabited these now-submerged “islands.”