World's oldest known blueprints detail to-scale desert megastructures
New Atlas - Tue 23 May 23It’s hard to imagine constructing a building without a detailed plan, but when exactly did humans first start doing that? Archeologists have discovered the oldest known blueprints, with a ...
Ancient Humans Mapped Out Hunting Device on Boulders
Discover Magazine - Sun 21 May 23Humans carved into boulders precise, to-scale representations of the large "desert kites" they built in the Middle East.
Stone Age blueprints are the oldest architectural plans ever found
Newscientist - Wed 17 May 23Plans etched into stone tablets depict vast hunting traps called desert kites built 9000 years ago, showing a mastery of geometry long before the invention of writing
The Oldest Known Blueprints Depict Stone Age ‘Megastructures’
Vice - Wed 17 May 23Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known architectural plans to scale in human history, which were engraved in stone some 8,000 to 9,000 years ago by Neolithic peoples in Jordan and Saudi ...
The oldest scaled-down drawings of actual structures go back 9,000 years
ScienceNews - Wed 17 May 23Two large, engraved stones found in the Middle East display the oldest known building plans drawn to scale, researchers say. One carved depiction covers part of a rectangular stone found ...
Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert megastructures
Phys.org - Wed 17 May 23The oldest scale plans of human made megastructures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated to between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict nearby ...
Stone Age humans made to-scale plans to build mysterious mega structures
CNN - Mon 22 May 23 Ancient Engravings in Jordan, Saudi Arabia May Point to Oldest Construction Plans Ever Discovered, Techtimes - Thu 18 May 23World's Oldest Known Blueprints? 8,000-Year-Old Stone Carvings Depict Plans for Developing Ancient 'Desert Kite' Traps, The Science Times - Thu 18 May 23
Oldest Architectural Plans Show How Mysterious Megastructures Were Built, IFLScience - Wed 17 May 23
Mysterious Desert Mega Structures’ Oldest Architectural Plans Uncovered, Mirage News - Fri 19 May 23
Mysterious Desert Mega-Structures Revealed in Oldest Architectural Plans, Mirage News - Wed 17 May 23
Archaeologists Discover the Oldest Known Blueprints
Smithsonian Magazine - Mon 22 May 23The Stone Age engravings are to-scale depictions of desert kites, massive stone structures used by hunters to capture animals
These engravings could be the oldest example of architectural plans
ZME Science - Fri 19 May 23It could have broad implications for understanding the origins of modern civilization
Archaeologists discover oldest scale plans for humanmade mega-structures
HeritageDaily - Thu 18 May 23Archaeologists have found engravings from between 7,000 and 8,000-years-ago that depict nearby desert kites, vast structures used to trap animals. The ability to condense vast expanses of space ...
Blueprints engraved in stone from Saudi Arabia and Jordan could be the world’s oldest
Popular Science - Thu 18 May 23An aerial view of a desert kite in the Jebel az-Zilliyat region of Saudi Arabia. The kite dates back to the Stone Age and was a kind of hunting trap. O. Barge, CNRS An international ...
8,000-year-old rock carvings in Arabia may be world's oldest megastructure blueprints
Livescience - Wed 17 May 23Around 8,000 years ago, Middle Eastern hunters carved to-scale plans of their 'desert kite' traps onto rocks. ...
Stone Engravings of Mysterious Ancient Megastructures May Be World's Oldest 'Blueprints'
Scientific American - Wed 17 May 23Stone engravings of ancient megastructures called desert kites may be the earliest “blueprints” ever discovered
8,000-Year-Old Engravings Could Be The Oldest Examples of Construction Plans
ScienceAlert - Wed 17 May 23There's no signs of council approval, though.
Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures
ScienceDaily - Sun 21 May 23An international team of researchers identifies engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia as the oldest known building plans to The archaeological finds are 8,000 to 9,000 years old and depict nearby ...
Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures, Science Blog - Fri 19 May 23Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures, Eurekalert - Fri 19 May 23
Oldest architectural plans detail mysterious desert mega structures, Scienmag - Wed 17 May 23
Neolithic Engravings are Oldest Architectural Plans of Humanmade Mega-Structures
Sci.News - Thu 18 May 23Two prehistoric engravings in Jordan and Saudi Arabia depict ‘desert kites’ -- humanmade mega-traps that are dated to at least 9,000 years ago for the oldest. The post Neolithic Engravings ...