Rujm el Hiri - Prehistoric ’’Stonehenge’’ monument in Golan Heights fuels mystery Reuters

Rujm el Hiri - Prehistoric ’’Stonehenge’’ monument in Golan Heights fuels mystery Reuters WATCH: ’Stonehenge’ Monument in Golan Heights Fuels Ancient Mystery Known as Rujm el-Hiri in Arabic, meaning the ’stone heap of the wild cat,’ the complex has five concentric circles, the largest more than 152 meters wide, and a massive burial chamber in the middle. Ari Rabinovich Driving past it, one of the most mysterious structures in the Middle East is easy to miss. The prehistoric stone monument went unnoticed for centuries in a bare expanse of field on the Golan Heights. After Israel captured the territory from Syria in a 1967 war, archaeologists studying an aerial survey spotted a pattern of stone circles not visible from the ground. Subsequent excavations revealed it was one of the oldest and largest structures in the region.