Mysterious stone structure discovered under Sea of Galilee: Bigger than warship, A mysterious stone structure is discovered beneath the Sea of Galilee and divers that have been down to the site say it is “definitely a man-made structure." According to Yahoo News on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, this structure is bigger in area and taller than Stonehenge.
The stone structure is in a cone shape with “unhewn basalt” cobbles and boulders piled high to make this underwater mystery. Archaeologists are puzzled as to what this structure's purpose is. They think it might be a giant cairn, rocks piled on top of each other.
Archaeologists, who have visited this structure in a dive, say that although the stones are in their natural state with no stone cutting or carving detected, the way they are arranged is not natural. This leaves no other explanation, but that they were put there by man. Some of the other similar structures like this one around the world were created to mark burials.
Researcher Yitzhak Piz of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University believes that the structure could date back about 4,000 years and that it was originally constructed on land. It was later covered with water as the Sea of Galilee moved inland and eroded the land.
This structure is heavier than most modern-day worships. Paz believes a more feasible explanation would be that this structure is from the third millennium BC because it resembles some of the other megalithic phenomena found from that time.
This underwater structure was first detected in 2003, when sonar picked it up during a survey of the ocean floor in the southwest portion of the Sea of Galilee.
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The stone structure is in a cone shape with “unhewn basalt” cobbles and boulders piled high to make this underwater mystery. Archaeologists are puzzled as to what this structure's purpose is. They think it might be a giant cairn, rocks piled on top of each other.
Archaeologists, who have visited this structure in a dive, say that although the stones are in their natural state with no stone cutting or carving detected, the way they are arranged is not natural. This leaves no other explanation, but that they were put there by man. Some of the other similar structures like this one around the world were created to mark burials.
Researcher Yitzhak Piz of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University believes that the structure could date back about 4,000 years and that it was originally constructed on land. It was later covered with water as the Sea of Galilee moved inland and eroded the land.
This structure is heavier than most modern-day worships. Paz believes a more feasible explanation would be that this structure is from the third millennium BC because it resembles some of the other megalithic phenomena found from that time.
This underwater structure was first detected in 2003, when sonar picked it up during a survey of the ocean floor in the southwest portion of the Sea of Galilee.
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