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Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 24 2017, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-leave-the-gate-open dept.

edIII writes:

Hundreds of Mysterious Stone 'Gates' Found in Saudi Arabia's Desert

Google Earth has unlocked the gates to ancient mysteries around the world.

For years, amateur and professional archaeologists have used the search engine's satellite imagery to discover mysterious earthworks in Kazakhstan, Roman ruins, a forgotten fortress in Afghanistan and more. In the past decade, Google Earth also has helped identify thousands of burial sites and other "works of the old men," as they're called, scattered across Saudi Arabia.

Now, archaeologists have uncovered nearly 400 previously undocumented stone structures they call "gates" in the Arabian desert that they believe may have been built by nomadic tribes thousands of years ago.

"We tend to think of Saudi Arabia as desert, but in practice there's a huge archaeological treasure trove out there and it needs to be identified and mapped," said David Kennedy, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia and author of a paper set to appear in the November issue of the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy.

"You can't see them very well from the ground level, but once you get up a few hundred feet, or with a satellite even higher, they stand out beautifully."

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:07PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:07PM (#586913) Journal

    Uhhhh - your point? It's pretty obvious that the submission is a block quote. The source of the block quote is given. I didn't notice that any of the eds, whether it be edI or ed XVI, claimed any credit above and beyond having read and submitted the article to Soylent. So, you point? You just don't like edIII? Are all the rest of the eds alright, or is it all of them that you wish to denigrate?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:51PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @04:51PM (#586930)

    It's just misleading "edIII writes:" and then something edill didnẗ write. Perhaps not everybody is familiar with the SN SOP.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @08:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @08:35AM (#587743)

    It's been altered since I commented. When I made my comment, the nytimes.com article was linked from the word "gates" as it is in the original submission.

    >The source of the block quote is given.

    It was given as "edIII writes:" as though he had written it.