The structures, called desert kites, were likely used to trap and kill migrating animals, researchers said. Olivier Barge, CNRS. CC-BY 4.0 When a plane flew over the deserts of Saudi Arabia in the ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old leopard trap in the Negev Desert in Israel. The trap, which was found along with a 1,600-year-old trap, was originally thought to be just a few hundred ...

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, ...

NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL—Geochronologist Naomi Porat of the Geological Survey of Israel used optical dating to measure the amount of radiation that had been absorbed from the environment by two animal ...

When a plane flew over the deserts of Saudi Arabia in the 1920s, the pilots looked down to see a pattern in the rock and sand. As long as 3 miles, the patterns were made of walls and pits and ...