Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrifices

  • Written by: Melissa Kennedy, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Sydney
Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrificesA group of three mustatil and later Bronze Age funerary pendants on a rocky outcrop, southeast of AlUla County.AAKSA / The Royal Commission for AlUla, Author provided

Over the past five years, archaeologists have identified more than 1,600 monumental stone structures dotted across a swathe of Saudi Arabia larger than Italy. The purpose of these...

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