FWD: “The Middle East is Dotted With Thousands Of Puzzling Kite-Shaped Structures” - Atlas Obscura

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Presenter: Khaled Malas

Delivered: Dubai on March 23, 2019

In late 2017, it was announced that 400 elongated, stone-built structures, some the size of football fields, had been seen within Saudi Arabia’s inhospitable Harrat Khaybar, one of several volcanic fields (harrats) scattered throughout the Arabian Peninsula.

Sources & Future References

• Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys: Collected During His Travels in the East : John Lewis Burckhardt : Internet Archive

• Studying the “Desert Kites” at a Global Scale | Globalkites - test

• Distribution, Sizes, Function and Heritage Importance of the Harrat Al Shaam Desert Kites: The Largest Prehistoric Stoneworks of Mankind?

• Desert kites in the Negev desert and northeast Sinai: Their function, chronology and ecology

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