Science baffled by ancient Middle East ruins
12 November 2015 - 02:16
Driving past it, one of the most mysterious structures in the Middle East is easy to miss. The prehistoric stone monument went unnoticed for centuries in a bare expanse of field on the Golan Heights. After Israel captured the heights from Syria in the 1967 war, archaeologists studying pictures shot for an aerial survey spotted a pattern of stone circles not visible from the ground.
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