Desert kites, stone wall structures that date back 5,000 to 8,000 years, were used to trap gazelle and other similar animals. The dry desert of eastern Jordan preserved many of them, but ...
Collation of satellite imagery and new fieldwork in Şanlıurfa (south-east Türkiye) has revealed large numbers of stone-walled desert kites, some of which may date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (c. 9500 ...
24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New peer-reviewed research into ancient stone-built animal traps, known as 'desert kites', reveals sophisticated and extensive hunting of wild animals from the Late ...
Creative cultural products based on kites are pictured at a kite workshop in Hanting district of Weifang, East China's Shandong province, Oct 14, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] Kites are helping to drive ...
In modern times, British pilots who flew from Baghdad to Cairo saw remains of human-made structures-desert kites and abandoned camp sites. Subsequently, archaeological surveys and excavations ...
(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.