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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 ...

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 ...

Stone engravings of ancient megastructures called desert kites may be the earliest “blueprints” ever discovered. Skip to main content. Scientific American. May 17, 2023. 4 min read.

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.

Aerial view of a kite in the Khaybar area of north-west Saudi Arabia. These ancient hunting structures were named ‘kites’ by aviators in the 1920s because, observed from above, their form is ...

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 ...

“The kites of eastern Jordan are found largely in the Black Desert, a broad strip of lava fields stretching across eastern Jordan from southern Syria into northern Saudi Arabia, although some have ...