Still others advance suggestions that it was a place to conduct astronomical observations for calculations related to religious purposes or an ancient calendar for agricultural purposes. Others maintain that it was simply a monumental burial site for a major chieftain or important leader. A large following suggests that it was a place of worship, where ceremonies were held during the longest and shortest days of the year. So what does this unusual ancient monumental construction mean? Who originally built it, and why?Ī variety of proposed explanations have emerged. Sites such as Stonehenge and Rujm el Hiri raise interesting and curious theories such as those proposed in the following video.Ī very good model and audio-visual explanation of Gilgal Rephaim can be found in the Golan Archaeological Museum, in nearby Katzrin, which is accessible. It is possible that the inhabitants of the Chacolithic Golan were taller than the nomadic peoples who built the site. Located at 515 meters above sea level, Rujm el-Hiri consists of a central cairn, a dolmen, covered with a mound of rocks, a tumulus, with a set of concentric rings encircling it.īuilt during the late Chalcolithic or Early Bronze Age about 5000 years ago, Rujm el-Hiri (also called Rogem Hiri or Gilgal Rephaim) is made of an estimated 40,000 tons of uncut black volcanicbasalt field stones piled and wedged into between five and nine concentric rings (depending on how you count them), with heights reaching to 1 to 2.5 meters (3-8 feet) high. I have been there since Rujm el Hiri is on the Golan Trail. Sixteen kilometers east of the Sea of Galilee in the western part of the historic Bashan plain of the Golan Heights, Israel are the ruins of a most unusual structure, which scholars believe was built at least in part for archaeo-astronomical purposes.
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