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To: SunkenCiv

I can find very little about these stone circles in Saudi. I wonder if these are actually the tops of walls that are just starting to be uncovered as the sands shift.


15 posted on 08/26/2004 12:13:26 PM PDT by dixie sass (Texas - South Carolina on Steroids)
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To: dixie sass
a little more:
Unsung Crossroads
by David W. Tschanz
During the Chalcolithic, or Copper, Age, approximately 6000 years ago, the population of al-Jawf laboriously erected 54 groups of squared-off stone pillars, some of which measured up to three meters (9'6") in height. Called al-rajajil ("the men") today, the pillars appear to the casual observer to be randomly placed, although a bird's-eye view shows that they are placed in roughly parallel east-west lines.

22 posted on 08/26/2004 12:42:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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