archaeologist found 7000 year old cult site in Saudi Arabia filled with human remains animal bones report

Archaeologists have found a 7 thousand year old monument in Saudi Arabia in which human remains have also been found. Along with this, bones of hundreds of animals were also found. This monument has been found in a desert. It is being said about the monument that it might have been a place where some ritual might have been performed by some sect.

This monument found by archaeologists in Saudi Arabia tells a surprising story. Searchers have found the remains of an adult male who is said to be around 30 years old. LiveScience’s Report According to, these remains were found inside a mustatil. In Arabic language, Mustatil is a rectangular structure. study journal PLOS One Has been published in. This discovery has now also brought new information about Mustatil, it is said.

This is also said to be one of the 1600 Mustatils discovered since 1970. Most of these were found buried under sand. It is said that they were built when Arabia was a green area instead of a desert and these Mustatil were built here for elephants and hippos to bathe.

It has been said that when the climate here gradually changed, this area turned into a desert. And with this, the people of the sect must have gathered here and sacrificed their animals here so that their deity could be pleased. However, which deity or supreme power they worshiped has not been known yet.

The report states that according to the lead author of the study, Melissa Kennedy, who is an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia, ‘Nothing has been written about Mustatil. There is no information about what these were used for and what is their relation with customs or sects. Now the finding of this one more Mustatil indicates that he must have had a deep connection with some sect of that time. The use of these rectangular structures may be associated with some important ritual.

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