Rujum en-Nabi Shu'ayb

Rujum en-Nabi Shu'ayb (Arabic: رجم النبي شعيب, Hebrew: רוג'ום נבי שועייב; "Stone heap of the prophet Shu'ayb", that is Jethro) or Jethro's Cairn is an ancient megalithic monument, consisting of a crescent shaped heap of field stones, located some 15 kilometers from the Sea of Galilee on a fairly inaccessible hillside below Parod in Northern Israel. It has been measured as 14,000 cubic meters (490,000 ft3) in volume and about 150 meters (160 yards) long, making it visible from satellite photos. Bronze Age pottery excavated at the site dates the construction to between 3050 BCE and 2650 BCE, which would place it before Egypt's pyramids. Although the site's existence was known, many archaeologists had believed the amalgamation of stones was an ancient city wall and there had been little investigation by archeologists. In 2014, Ido Wachtel, a Hebrew University PhD candidate, discovered that the structure stood alone and did not act as any sort of fortification. It is conjectured that its shape might mimic the moon; it is some 29 kilometers from Beit Yerah, an ancient pre-Talmudic town that translates as "House of the Moon." This town was known to have commercial trading operations with the ancient Egyptians and is a considered to be a one-day journey from the monument by the era's traveling standards. Similar structures have also been found in the area; one of them, Rujm el-H

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