PERSIA
Posted on 10/31/2014 10:45:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Their purpose is unknown, and archaeologists are unsure when these structures were built. Analysis of the photographs, as well as artifacts found on the ground, suggest the circles date back at least 2,000 years, but they may be much older. They could even have been constructed in prehistoric times, before writing was invented, scientists say.
Though the Big Circles were first spotted by aircraft in the 1920s, little research has focused on these structures, and many scientists are not even aware of their existence, something these archaeologists hope the new aerial images will help to change.
The "most important contribution is simply to collect and make known a large group of rather remarkable sites," writes Kennedy, a professor at the University of Western Australia, in an article published recently in the journal Zeitschrift für Orient Archäologie.
In addition to the 11 photographed circles, researchers have identified another similar circle in Jordan, which appears to have been only partially completed, Kennedy noted. Old satellite imagery also reveals two circles, one in Jordan and another in Syria, which have both been destroyed. The circle in Syria was destroyed within the last decade and the one in Jordan a few decades ago. A separate research team, from Durham University, investigated the Syria circle before it was completely gone.
While there are many smaller stone circles in the Middle East, what makes these 11 Big Circles stand out is their large size and ancient age, Kennedy said.
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Maybe they were part of “stone age” people’s version of “circle the wagons” as a form of defensive
structures.
More likely with traps, seines and gillnets ... there wasn’t the leisure time we have today then ... get the food and move on to other necessities.
Obviously they had their ancient tax payers money to burn and this is the first known “round about” know to mankind. What a find!!!
Until the funding comes in and then they’ll tell you what funder wants to hear.
The answer is obvious. Just as the natives in New Guinea built replicas of airplanes as part of the cargo cult, beseeching the return of the Gods in their flying vehicles with so much in the way of goodies, these huge circles were putative landing sites for the mother ships.
The natives were trying to lure the Ancient Aliens back to Earth.
(Well, its as good a theory as any)
Mephisto’s trapezoid.
maybe the bafflement is in how to prove it, since this seems to be the most likely explanation, at least to me...
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