Posted on 11/29/2010 8:02:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The dolmen means "stone table" or the "holy cemeteries". It represents the beginning of human architectural art as the findings indicate that man used this kind of tombs for burial 5,000 years ago.
Archaeologist Yasser Abu Noktah said that the discovered dolmens at al-Maysara Spring consist of roofs with huge flagstones, on which animals' drawings are carved, adding that a number of stone and flint tools were also unearthed at the site.
Al-Maysara site is one of the most important Syrian sites which date back to the Neolithic Age between 7,000 to 4,500 BC.
Abu Noktah added the archaeological expeditions have also unearthed several dolmen tombs to the northwest of Enkhil city.
"Other dolmen tombs were unearthed to the northwest of Nawa city where a large number of the Neolithic cemeteries were built," Abu Noktah said.
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Dig a little deeper and you will find WMD
Just happened to catch a show, on the History Channel I believe, over the holiday, that somehow associated these dolmen with unusually large skeletal remains.
Saw it and thought of the many threads on FR over the years, but didn’t actually watch it long enough to hear anything specific, as far as where or when.
They look a little like the tomb in Ireland that you posted a while back SunkenCiv.
They are obviously not muslim relics, so they must be destroyed immediately
Archaeologists: Tombs Dating Back to 5th Millennium BC Unearthed in Syria, Thought to be the First Mosques, as Spears and Daggers were found inside
:’D
If the barrows have eroded, were the remains disturbed, or were they interred more deeply?
This is very interesting because of the age and the reminder of Stonehenge with regard to the elevating of very large stones as lintels. Is Stonehenge a tomb?
That’s a really old site, going back near the dawn of agriculture.
About halfway back.
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