Stone wheels and gates in Middle East (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 08, 2015, 14:51 (3061 days ago)

These giant structures are like the lines in Peru, can be seen best from the air, and the dated ones are 8500 years old. The lines in Peru date to 200-500 B.C.:-http://www.livescience.com/52944-huge-geometric-shapes-in-middle-east-revealed.html-"Thousands of stone structures that form geometric patterns in the Middle East are coming into clearer view, with archaeologists finding two wheel-shaped patterns date back some 8,500 years. That makes these "wheels" older than the famous geoglyphs in Peru called Nazca Lines.-"And some of these giant designs located in Jordan's Azraq Oasis seem to have an astronomical significance, built to align with the sunrise on the winter solstice.-"Those are just some of the findings of new research on these Middle East lines, which were first encountered by pilots during World War I. RAF Flight Lt. Percy Maitland published an account of them in 1927 in the journal Antiquity, reporting that the Bedouin called the structures "works of the old men," a name still sometimes used by modern-day researchers."-Comment: Bbella will be interested. Were we visited?