(prepared by Mr. Walid Yousef)
Before the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project (EBAP) visited the Black Desert of Jordan, nobody
the archaeology of this large area.
When the archaeologists started work, stones from ancient houses
under the ground for more than 8,000 years.
The people who built these houses also
amazing long walls called ‘kites’ to catch animals with. The walls were many kilometres long and they met at a point.
Animals that
away from the people could not escape from this point in the walls.
Archaeologists think that the walls at Jibal al-Khashabiyeh might be the oldest in the world: nobody
anything like this before.
The kites show that the people who lived in the Black Desert
together in large teams to find food much earlier than they expected.