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January 16, 2025

Israel’s Stonehenge Didn’t Serve an Astronomic Purpose

Rujm el-Hiri remains a mystery.

Sometimes archaeologists, like other scientists, come across evidence that supports one or another rival theory, or that suggests an explanation for a previously unexplained phenomenon. Other times, as in a recent high-tech investigation of a mysterious site in the Golan Heights dating about a millennium before the probable time of Abraham, a discovery contradicts existing explanations without offering anything better. Gavriel Fiske writes:

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