In Saudi Arabia, scientists have found strange stone objects using Google Earth satellite imagery, some of which are reportedly 7,000 to 9,000 years old.
The objects are located on the territory of the highland of Harrat-Khaybar. In total, researchers discovered about 400 stone structures, mostly rectangular and round in form. Their purpose has not yet been recognized.
400 mysterious stone structures, up to 7,000 years old, discovered in Saudi Arabia
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Some of them consist of several stone walls. But there are separate walls, roughly built of stones. The size of the smallest object is 13 square meters, the largest is 518 square meters.
The items are located on the slope of an ancient volcanic cone. On some walls there are traces of lava. However, the exact age will be established only after field research is conducted.
These structures look the same as those found in other places of the Middle East and archaeologists call them “Gates”, while other stone objects of the same kind are called “Kites” and they were used as hunting traps, according to Newsweek.
According to professor David Kennedy of the University of Western Australia, the author of the discovery, they are the oldest structures created by man to have been found in Saudi Arabia.
“It is impossible at the moment to date these Gates except relatively. I have argued in the article that they are the earliest of the so-called ‘Works of the Old Men’, the stone-built structures found widely in ‘Arabia’ from northern Syria to Yemen, but esp. common in the lava fields,” he was quoted as saying by Newsweek.
