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Were they made by some weird kind of fault? Ancient astronauts?
A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai Desert confirms what many researchers have long suspected: The walls form large funnels to direct gazelle and other large game animals into killing pits. What's more, the kites are between 2,300 and 2,400-years-old, were abandoned about 2,200 years ago and are just the right size to have worked on local gazelles and other hooved game.
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
reply to post by Homoousia316
I was reading about these recently, its odd they arn't tall enough to stop gazelles from jumping them.
I don't know how gazelles think, but I'm pretty sure if they are anything like deer in the US, they would just jump over the wall if they are being chased.
I would be more inclined to believe they were used to funnel wild sheep like the Mouflon.
Originally posted by Homoousia316
I know that none of the "ancient astronauts" cultists will take this at all into consideration the next time they look to unusual formations in deserts as proof that sometimes anomalies do get resolved, but for the rest of us with a few neurons still firing, just remember that not all mysteries stay mysteries forever.
www.archaeologydaily.com
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