These ancient blueprints depict large structures used to trap and funnel animals for slaughter into enclosures called kites. First spotted by aviators in the 1920s, the contraptions are called ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Studies widen the inventory and geographic extent of these gigantic animal traps, the largest built structures of their ancient era Animals were driven along converging stone walls for hundreds of ...

‘Kites in Context’ project, focus on ancient Jordanian desert kites. Published May 9th, 2024 - 10:10 GMT. Shutterstock.

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 ...

Massive ancient hunting traps called desert kites (one in Jordan shown from above) include long walls that converge on enclosed spaces where animals were driven into pits. O. Barge, Globalkites ...