Uncover the secrets of the mysterious patterns that stretch across the Arabian Desert!

The deserts of Saudi Arabia were once the fertile homes of ancient people over 8,000 years ago.

Today, the remnants of these ancient societies still exist – frozen, or rather dried up in time. And across the Arabian Peninsula, from Jordan to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Iraq, researchers have found thousands of massive stone structures from the sky.

V-shaped structures were first seen by RAF pilots in the 1920s, and for more than a century experts debated why they were built.

Satellite imagery and drone intelligence from the Oriya Desert in Saudi Arabia now confirms widespread suspicions.

Today, archaeologists working on these ancient stone designs believe they were probably used as traps for group hunting.

Some of the V-shaped figures indicate a hole, while others indicate a sudden slope as well as a fence.

All three designs indicate that these designs were once used to transport herds of wild animals to their death or captivity.

More excavations are needed to find out exactly which animals were driven into the newly discovered traps, but the fact that they appeared in other parts of the Arabian Peninsula indicates that this was a common and effective human survival strategy.

To the south, for example, archaeologists have found hundreds of stone models and thousands of other stone structures scattered across the desert. Further south, they tend to be more complex and concentrated than in the Avir Desert.

In the past, archaeologists have speculated that these structures were used as traps because they tend to appear on sandy patches that were once seasonal pastures. The green spaces may have facilitated the migration of deer, goats, or other grazing animals.

Some ancient rock carvings from that time also illustrate the structures used to transform animals. The design of some of them suggests that they may have been used to breed wild animals – one of the first attempts at domestication found anywhere in the world.

Some specimens have been found in larger stone structures called “whiskers” that can extend for several kilometers.

“Almost nothing is known about megatrap users in the Sahara sample distribution area,” the researchers wrote in the study.

Source: Science Alert

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