The Rujm el-Hiri site in the Golan Heights has been shrouded in mystery as new research indicates that it may not have been an astronomical observatory as originally theorized, according to a ...

An aerial picture shows Rujm el-Hiri, an archaeological site of the early bronze age II period. Rujm el-Hiri, an ancient basalt rock structure, situated in the Golan Heights, about 16 kilometres ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. When you purchase through links ...

Rujm el-Hiri couldn’t have been an astronomical observatory, at least as we view it today. Why? Because the earth beneath it is moving. Every year, the tectonic plates in the area around Golan ...

Archaeologists have discovered that the famed monument of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights, popularly called “Stonehenge of the East”, has drifted tens of metres since its construction 5,000 ...

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Rujm el-Hiri couldn’t have been an astronomical observatory, at least as we view it today. Why? Because the earth beneath it is moving. Every year, the tectonic plates in the area around Golan Heights ...

Archaeologists have discovered that the famed monument of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights, popularly called “Stonehenge of the East”, has drifted tens of metres since its construction 5,000 years ...