Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ‘wheels’ that are more numerous and older than the in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
The structures are thought to date back 2,000 years, but why they were built is baffling archaeologists and historians. Ancient mystery: The stone wheels are thought to be 2,000 years old Hidden: Thousands of people have probably walked past the structures and not realised what they were Baffling: None of the Nazca Line-like patterns appear to be lined up with astronomical phenomena‘In Jordan alone we've got stone-built structures that are far more numerous than the , far more extensive in the area that they cover, and far older,’ David Kennedy, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia, told Live Science. More...'Gobsmackingly amazing':
He added: ‘People have probably walked over them, walked past them, for centuries, millennia, without having any clear idea what the shape was.’
They are often found on lava fields – but don’t fall into any pattern, according to Kennedy, whose research into them will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal Of Archaeological Science. Similar: The ancient and mysterious in the Nazca Desert in PeruHe explains that they come in a huge variety of forms, some being ‘kites’, structures that funnelled animals, some being seemingly random meandering lines of stone and others being rectangular.
They were actually first discovered in 1927 by an RAF pilot called Lt. Percy Maitland, but it wasn’t until Professor Kennedy and his team began studying aerial and Google Earth photographs that their true extent was revealed. Share
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