NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks - The New York Times - 0 views
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High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.
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Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old.
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the Mahandzhar culture, which flourished there from 7,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C., could be linked to the older figures.
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