Mysterious Stone Structure in the Sea of Galilee
Mysterious Stone Structure in the Sea of Galilee
April 11, 2013
Fox News — A giant stone structure, rising 23 feet high with a diameter of about 230 feet (50 meters), has been discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee.
It was originally discovered in the summer of 2003 during a sonar survey of the southwest portion of the sea, also called the Kinneret in Hebrew.
The structure was first detected during a sonar survey of the Sea of Galilee (Photo: Shmuel Marco)
Divers have since explored the structure and found it to be a huge cairn, a pile of stones set up as a landmark or a monument.
The structure weighs more than 60,000 tons and is made of basalt boulders a little more than 3 feet long with no apparent construction pattern. Researchers say that it is definitely human made and was probably built on land, only later to be covered by the Sea of Galilee as the water level rose.
Dr. Yitzhak Paz, of the Israel Antiquities Authority and BGU’s Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, says it was likely built over 4,000 years ago in the third milennium B.C.
“There are other megalithic phenomena from that time period built in the area,” says Dr. Paz.
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