Stone Structures, Saudi Arabia
Much like Mozambique, Saudi Arabia is a harsh terrain difficult for researchers and explorers. Earlier this year, a professor in Western Australia, David Kennedy, solved this dilemma by scouring the region via Google Earth and in the process uncovered over 2000 potential archaeological sites.
The discovery unearthed thousands of prehistoric man-made stone structures – stone wheels, ancient animal traps, tombs shaped like kites – stretching from Syria to Yemen. He also conducts annual flights over Jordan for the Aerial Archaeology project, which collects images of the area for study. Professor Kennedy believes these items to be over 9000 years old.
Among his discoveries is a 93-mile-long wall in Jordan.
Though the wall was first spotted in 1948, Kennedy and his team are trying to decipher exactly who built it and what purpose it served. They are so far convinced that the wall wasn’t used for defensive purposes, and speculate it could have been used to mark boundaries between farms.
