Boing Boing July 23, 2026 • 13:30

RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground - Boing Boing

By Ellsworth Toohey

RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground - Boing Boing

Desert kites are knee-high stone walls forming traps kilometers long. Over 6,000 are known, some 10,000 years old.

RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground that nobody walking across them had noticed: two long stone walls converging into an enclosure, with… [+1199 chars]

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