Over 1000 massive stone structures scattered across a 200,000=kilometer-area near the city of AlUla in northwest Saudi Arabia (Credit: AAKSA and Royal Commission for AlUla)
A collection of 1,000 prehistoric structures dubbed mustatils the plural form of the Arabic term for rectangles scattered across 124,274 miles (200,000 kilometers) in northwest Saudi Arabia may be the world s oldest monuments. A team of archeologists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) reached this conclusion after radiocarbon dating of charcoal found inside the courtyards indicated they were constructed in 5,000 BC or about 2,000 years before the Egyptian pyramids or monuments like Stonehenge in southern England. The mustatil phenomenon represents a remarkable development of monumental architecture, as hundreds of these structures were built in northwest Arabia, the researchers wrote in their paper, published in the journal
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