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North of Saudi Arabia and south of Jordan lie thousands of mysterious geometrical structures whose shape, seen from the air, is reminiscent of huge kites. The oldest of these gigantic stone alignments were built around 7,000 BC. Here we have some of the oldest structures in human history, predating the Egyptian pyramids and the spectacular Stonehenge alignments by more than 4,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using state-of-the-art technology and determined to shed new light on this little-known Neolithic period, an international team of archaeologists led by Frenchman R\u00e9my Crassard and Franco-Jordanian Wael Abu-Azizeh is attempting to understand who built these structures and why.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Au Nord de l\u2019Arabie Saoudite et au Sud de la Jordanie se trouvent des milliers de myst\u00e9rieuses structures g\u00e9om\u00e9triques dont la forme, vue du ciel, fait penser \u00e0 d\u2019immenses cerfs-volants. Les plus anciens de ces gigantesques alignements de pierres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9labor\u00e9s vers 7\u2019000 avant notre \u00e8re. Nous voil\u00e0 donc en pr\u00e9sence de quelques-unes des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":687,"template":"","event_category":[9],"year_category":[6],"class_list":["post-685","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-film","year_category-6"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLe myst\u00e8re des cerfs-volants du d\u00e9sert - FIFAN \u2013 Festival International du film d'arch\u00e9ologie Nyon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Au Nord de l\u2019Arabie Saoudite et au Sud de la Jordanie se trouvent des milliers de myst\u00e9rieuses structures g\u00e9om\u00e9triques dont la forme, vue du ciel, fait penser \u00e0 d\u2019immenses cerfs-volants.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fifan.ch\/en\/events\/le-mystere-des-cerfs-volants-du-desert\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Le myst\u00e8re des cerfs-volants du d\u00e9sert - 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