Columns of Rajajil
The Rajajel Columns is an archaeological site located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the Al-Jouf region, in the Qara suburb, south of Sakaka in particular, between a group of farms there, and on a low plateau for thousands of years. The Rajajeel site is considered one of the oldest archaeological sites in Al-Jouf, and it consists of fifty groups of columns Stone, which is called Rajajil, along with a number of stone pillars that have been carved out of sandstone, and the number of these columns ranges from three to seven columns, and in general the height of the hookahs or columns may exceed three meters, and their thickness is about sixty centimeters, while there are Some th Mayor demolished on the floors site.
History of Rajajel columns
Some researchers in history, and those who document it, suggest the connection of the Rajajil columns to a temple that was built in the fourth millennium BC, with an indication of the urgent need to conduct scientific research and archaeological excavations necessary, to reveal more information about this site, and the secret of its huge columns, while he went Some have likened these pillars to those in Britain, and they are related to the period of the third millennium BC. The guesses did not stop at this point only, but some went to believe that the location of the Rajajil columns may be part of a group of temples in place, and each group of these columns follows A tribe or a group A human condition that condemns and worships that which other groups do not worship, and this place may have previously been a destination for worshipers and pilgrims from different places.
We refer in this article to the document of the Dumat al-Jandal Museum, which explains that the stone form that was adopted in building the columns may refer to religious rituals, but at the same time it clarifies the economic situation of some of the interior regions of the Arabian Peninsula, specifically those located south of the influential desert, and overcomes He must practice grazing, hunting as well, and what this document analyzes is that in the period around the year 4000 BC, the Neolithic civilization extended to many regions including the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai region, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq, and this civilization was distinguished by the use of pottery Besides doing the button Spark, hunting, grazing, and the emergence of copper, as villages spread with stone circles, where they were used for temporary (seasonal) housing, and among the literal explanations included in the document in reference to the columns of Rajajil: (There is a complex of stones and rubble near Sakaka, known as the columns of Rajajil, It was an important center with analogues in the Sinai).
Information about the Rajajel poles
- The name of the site with this name is due to the common word in the spoken dialect in Saudi Arabia, describing the group of men (Rajajeel), because people suspected in the past that these erect columns are a group of men, to the surprise of the visionary that they are only stone and sand columns.
- The site has not been developed as a tourist, or referred to as it should be, and this is what many residents and those interested in archeology want to preserve the history of these columns and their secrets, which have not been fully clear until the moment.
