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What is a mustatil?
“Mustatil” means “rectangle” in Arabic, and this word refers to strange stone structures discovered in the Saudi desert.
These alignments of rocks (sandstone, shale) form huge rectangles on the sand, which can be up to 600 meters long.
Scattered between the regions of Khaybar and Al-'Ula, over an area of approximately 200,000 km2, more than a thousand mustatils have already been identified.
According to archaeologists, they were erected at the end of the sixth millennium BC, well before the supposed construction date of the pyramids of Egypt or even that of the megaliths of Stonehenge, in the United Kingdom!
During excavations carried out in the heart of the head wall of a mustatil, located in Al-'Ula, horns and skulls of cattle, goats, sheep and gazelles were found.
They were arranged around a large vertical stone.
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