7/12/2023 0 Comments Skeletons found near rujim el hiriIt is interesting to note that the region is known as the Bashan, where Og the king of came out against the Israelites at the time of their entrance into the Promised Land but was vanquished in battle. In comparison, the Egyptian Pyramids were built some 4,500 years ago and Stonehenge in England was built some 3,500 years ago. It was estimated that the transportation and building of the massive monument would have required more than 25,000 working daysĮstimates as to when it was built vary widely but the site is believed to be between 5,000-6,000 years old. The entire formation is composed of over 40,000 tons of loose basalt rocks. It is called Rujm el-Hiri in Arabic, meaning the “stone heap of the wild cat”, and in Hebrew as Gilgal Refaim, or Wheel of the Giants.Īt its center is a mound of loose stones over 65 feet in diameter and over 16 feet tall, covering a burial chamber almost 20 feet long. The formation is not recognizable from the ground, appearing as random piles of rocks, but from above it is quite impressive, with an outer ring more than nearly 520 feet wide and eight feet high. ![]() Mike Freikman)Īfter the Six-Day War in 1967, archaeologists studying an aerial map of Israel discovered a strange formation of five concentric rings of loose rock located some ten miles east of the coast of the Sea of Galilee, in the middle of a large plateau covered with hundreds of single-chamber megalithic tombs called dolmens. Stonehenge in the Golan The sunrise on the day of the equinox as seen from the centre of the monument from the eastern outer wall (Photo credit Dr. ![]() The structure remains an enigma to archaeologists but some link it to Biblical giants. On Sunday morning, a biannual astronomical event was marked on an ancient structure in a remote section of northern Israel.
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