Desert kites, vast stone-built funnel structures, represent an extraordinary facet of prehistoric ingenuity. These mega-traps were designed to corral groups of wild ungulates and other prey, enabling ...

In the 1920s, British Royal Air Force pilots over the Middle East recorded the first sightings of what they dubbed desert kites—massive patterns carved into rocky land, often resembling the famous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here we see a rectangular stone standing upright with carving on it in the middle of a desert. Stars and lines engraved in rocks ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Engravings found in Jordan and Saudi Arabia appeared to match nearby ancient megastructures known as desert kites as seen from above. By Priyanka Runwal Massive prehistoric stone structures found in ...

Explore mysterious 9,000-year-old Stone Age megastructures found in the Arabian Desert. Deep in the Arabian Desert lie thousands of enigmatic stone megastructures whose true form is visible only from ...

Landscape of Saudi Arabia where some of the to-scale engravings were found. Olivier Barge, CNRS. CC-BY 4.0 Stone Age hunters in the Middle East and Central Asia used giant stone structures to trap ...

It’s hard to imagine constructing a building without a detailed plan, but when exactly did humans first start doing that? Archeologists have discovered the oldest known blueprints, with a ...

AMMAN — Buried across Jordan’s arid landscapes, massive ancient stone structures known as "desert kites" have, since their discovery, left archaeologists in perplexity. Stretching across vast areas, ...

Ancient people living in what is today Saudi Arabia and Jordan carved to-scale plans for large animal traps, called kites, into rock. The scientists who analyzed the discoveries say the ability to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed ancient stone engravings of vast animal traps in Jordan and Saudi Arabia that are possibly the earliest “blueprints” ever discovered. The engravings, estimated to be ...