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The effects of Rajajil
The Saudi desert is replete with many historical monuments left by ancient civilizations. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also a station of ancient civilizations that inhabited and left behind many traces, such as palaces, tombs, temples and shrines as a witness to these civilizations. To the northeast of Saudi Arabia we will choose the Al-Jouf region, which is a famous desert region There are many monuments and areas that visitors visit for their discovery and discovery, and the most prominent of these are the effects of Rajajeel.
The effects of Rajajel
The ruins of Rajajil are located southeast of the Sakaka region, with a distance of approximately twenty-two kilometers. It is one of the oldest historical monuments in the desert of Saudi Arabia, and the ruins of Rajajil are erected stone pillars scattered in groups, which are fifty groups, each group contains three to ten stone pillars They are different in length and width. Some of the columns are approximately three and a half meters long and have a width or thickness of sixty centimeters, and these monuments are called by this name in analogy to the column of the standing man, and the columns are many, much like the men of the local dialect.
History of the effects of Rajajil.
Excavations that discovered this historical site indicated that the history of these monuments dates back to the Chalcolithic civilization that took place in the year four thousand BC, where the stone mineral era dominates them. There are writings engraved on these stone pillars carved from the sandstone and refer to the Thamudic writing and some vaguely inscriptions of origin It cannot be translated, and these columns can be likened to the monuments of Stone Hing found in the village of Avebury in southern Britain.
Form of traces of Rajajil.
As we mentioned, these monuments consist of fifty groups of stone pillars in an irregular circle with a diameter of about eight hundred meters, and these stone columns are erect on the ground and some of them are broken and lying on the dirt, and the secret of these stone pillars remains among the secrets that cannot be explained, but there are hypotheses that have spoken About these columns, where some have mentioned that the ruins of the Rajajeel are evidence of the graves of an ancient people.
Others say that the site is a place dedicated to offering offerings to the gods as prevalent in ancient civilizations as ritual doctrines, and some imagined them as the remains of walls of an ancient village exposed parts, and from other hypotheses were built for the purposes of astronomical observation and the indications of star sites, and some of them saw it as a complex or religious center that meets There is every tribe or people in one group of stone pillars to practice their religious rituals. There is a lot of speculation, but its secret will remain opaque to conducting new excavations and excavations around these ancient monuments.
