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Engravings found in Jordan and Saudi Arabia appeared to match nearby ancient megastructures known as desert kites as seen from above. By Priyanka Runwal Massive prehistoric stone structures found ...

One engraving depicting a kite is carved onto a rock roughly 80 centimeters long and 32 centimeters wide. Archaeologists found it in 2015 in an ancient campsite beside a kite in the Jordanian ...

Satellite imagery has no as high resolution as drones used to map ancient landscape. "In 2022 we had visited as many of the kites as possible [n = 15] in the two easternmost chains, recording high ...

co-directed by Crassard “and part of a wider program to sustainably develop this culturally rich and ancient region.” Crassard and Barge are both on the Global Kites Project, Repper added ...

Dr Remy Crassard, a leading expert on desert kites, notes that they are some of the largest ancient structures of their era. The oldest kites, in southern Jordan, have been dated to 7000 BCE.

AMMAN — Buried across Jordan’s arid landscapes, massive ancient stone structures known as "desert kites" have, since their discovery, left archaeologists in perplexity. Stretching across vast ...

Humans who built massive “desert kites” in ancient times first carved to-scale plans of them, creating an 8,000-year-old schematic, a new study says. Scientists found the maps carved into boulders ...

“Kite like structures have also recently been reported in Yemen ... adding that in a landscape dotted with ancient volcanic cones, the extruded basalts have weathered into endless boulder fields ...