Discovered a 5,000-year-old crescent-shaped structure

Archaeologist Ido Wachtel at the Hebrew University (Israel) discovered a crescent-shaped structure dating back 5,000 years, the architecture is located near the city of Safed, about 15 km northwest of the lake of Galilee.

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This monument is 150m long and 7m high, named "Jethro Cairn" , visible from satellite images.

The excavated bronze and pottery items here show that this stone structure was built around 3050 -2650 BC. That means it is ahead of the pyramids at Giza (Egypt) and Stonehenge (England).

Page Sci-News said Ido Wachtel presented his amazing finding on June 12 at the 9th International Archeology Conference on the ancient Near East, taking place in Basel (Switzerland). .

He said that Jethro Cairn is located near a Bronze Age town called Tel Bet Yerah (meaning "home of the moon god" ) and may have helped mark the border of the town.

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