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Ideas, Inventions And Innovations: Saudi Arabia Has Nazca Like Lines, Strange Stone Circles, Huge Craters And Incredible Crescent Moon Only Visible From The Air

Ideas, Inventions and Innovations | 10.13.12

The Arabia Shield has a volcanic nature inside. A region of the Western Saudi Arabia is in fact covered with vast fields of lava known as harraat. These lands are spotted by many stone circles and other quite interesting archaeological remains of the Neolithic period, such as the “desert kites”, the hunters used to guide the game across the harrah in some corrals. With Google Maps, Italian researcher Amelia Carolina Sparavigna and other researchers at the  Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino were able observe both sceneries, the volcanic nature of the land and a portrait of Arabia during the Neolithic times.

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