stackyFACTSFrom the ground, these low stone walls look like meaningless rubble scattered by bored ancient herders.
From the ground, these low stone walls look like meaningless rubble scattered by bored ancient herders. However, when viewed from the air or high ridge lines, the 'desert kites' of Jordan form colossal funnel shapes spanning kilometers. Dating back over 8,000 years, these massive structures were prehistoric slaughterhouses designed to herd gazelles into deep killing pits, proving our ancestors were absolute masters of large-scale landscape engineering.
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