Archaeologists are baffled with the discovery of a large, mysterious structure under the waters of the Sea of Galilee:
The
mysterious structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and
boulders," and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons the researchers said.
That makes it heavier than most modern-day warships.
Rising nearly
32 feet (10 meters) high, it has a diameter of about 230 feet (70
meters). To put that in perspective, the outer stone circle of Stonehenge has a diameter just half that with its tallest stones not reaching that height. [...]
Researcher
Yitzhak Paz, of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion
University, believes it could date back more than 4,000 years. "The more
logical possibility is that it belongs to the third millennium B.C.,
because there are other megalithic phenomena [from that time] that are
found close by," Paz told LiveScience in an interview, noting that those
sites are associated with fortified settlements.
Owen Jarus of LiveScience has more:
Here.
No comments:
Post a Comment