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Rujm al-Hiri is the largest ancient megalithic monument in the Near East, located 16 kilometers east of the Sea of Galilee in the western part of the historic Bashan Plain in the Golan Heights.
Archaeologists suggest that it was built either during the Second Early Bronze Age around 3000 to 2700 BC, or in the Chalcolithic – First Early Bronze Age between 3880-3540 BC (although there is no consensus yet).
It consists of a series of concentric circles centered on a mound or mound of stones. The circles used approximately 37,500-40,000 tons of volcanic basalt material, stacked 2 meters high, with a large oval-shaped circle containing four progressively thinner rings. It may have functioned at least partly as an astronomical observatory.
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The site of Rujm al-Hari is an astronomical site in the Syrian Golan that scientists have placed alongside Stonehenge, the Maya and Aztec civilizations, and the pyramids of Egypt.
The site of “Rajam al-Hari” in the occupied Syrian Golan raises more questions about ancient astronomy and its relationship with major human monuments, the methods of their construction and placement on the ground still raise more questions.
In this context, Professor Anthony Aveni from Colgate University in the United States studied the site of Rajum al-Hari, and considered it one of the most important sites in the world to study the way our ancestors understood astronomy in common prehistoric times.
Professor Aveni, in his book (People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos), published in 2008, devoted a chapter to studying stoning of the stones on an equal footing with the famous British site Stonehenge, the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations, and the pyramids. Egyptian.
Professor Afeni is considered one of the founders of this science and one of the largest experts who studied the Maya-Aztec civilizations in Central America. He devoted years to studying the site of Rajum al-Hari and reached surprising results about the relationship of this giant edifice to the stars.
This science that deals with these sites and their astronomical manifestations is called (archaeoastronomy), and it is a relatively modern science that studies the human relationship with the sky and the stars in ancient civilizations, as it has been shown that many mysterious edifices not signed by inscriptions or writings in the ancient world contain accurate astronomical mathematical data related to the stars and planets.
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