The Nazca Lines of the Middle East
In Peru, the infamous Nazca Lines are a series of drawings, patterns, and geoglyphs uncovered in the Nazca Desert of Peru. These drawings, only visible from an airplane, remained undiscovered for hundreds or thousands of years until people developed the ability to fly and take pictures. No one really knows who did them, or why. Well, the Nazca Lines have company halfway across the globe. In the deserts of the Middle East, a series of stone wheels akin to the Nazca Lines have been discovered, and nobody knows who did them or for what purpose.
“In Jordan alone we’ve got stone-built structures that are far more numerous than the Nazca Lines, far more extensive in the area that they cover, and far older,” said David Kennedy, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia. “People have probably walked over them, walked past them, for centuries, millennia, without having any clear idea what the shape was.”
The stone wheels are more numerous than the Nazca Lines and are spread across the deserts of Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and basically the whole of the Middle East. The wheels are over 2000 old, which means they are believed to predate the Nazca Lines. What they’re there for, though? Nobody knows. They’re like crop circles carved in mystery dirt!
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