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Giant 4,000-Year-Old Megalith Mysteriously Fissured With Laser-Like Precision

The megalith, situated in Saudi Arabia, is mysteriously fissured in half with absolute accuracy, inscribed with curious symbols. Its two divided parts carried on being perfectly balanced for hundreds of years.

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Thousands of visitors are attracted by this magnificent prehistoric rock, traveling towards Al-Naslaa just to behold the stone’s perfection and blance, while also proclaiming numerous hypotheses on the rock’s origin.
Charles Huver found the monolith in 1883; which then became the main topic for heated controversies among scientists with different viewpoints on its origin. The giant stone is in absolute balance, supported by two bases.
The evidence suggests that at some point in the past, someone used some advanced tools ahead of its time to perform something with the rock. Latest archaeological findings depict that the region containing the rock was resided since the Bronze Age, dating back to 3000-1200 BC.
Another rock was discovered near Tayma in 2010, claimed the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, with a hieroglyphic inscription of the pharaoh Ramses III, leading to theories put forth that the location possibly played an important role in the trade route between the coast of the Red Sea and the Nile Valley.
Natural causes were also suggested among the clarifications for the mysterious cut. A number of researchers agree with the theory that the rock broke due to the floor having moved a bit under one of the two supports, while some others think that it could be from a volcanic dike or some weaker mineral, which has solidified.

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A different viewpoint from scientists is that it might have been an ancient pressure crevice pushed against the other, or a prehistoric fault line, a long crack in the surface of the earth, because the fault movement often generates a weakened rock zone eroding relatively quicker than the surrounding rock.
Truthfully, they were all just presumptions. The big problem is that there have been no persuasive answers to this, while the number of questions keep going up.
Archaeological documents about the region revealed that the most ancient reference of the oasis city is “Tiamat”, in Assyrian carvings aging from 700-800 BC, when the oasis became a flourishing city full of water wells and magnificent constructions.
Cuneiform inscriptions probably dating back to 500-600 BC in the oasis city was also found.   Surprisingly, during the same period, the Babylonian monarch Nabodinus retreated to Tayma for worship and seeking for prophecies, previously entrusting the crown of Babylon to his beloved son, Belshazzar
Archaeologists have also discovered cuneiform inscriptions, possibly dating from the 6th century BC in the oasis city. Interestingly at this time, Babylonian king Nabonidus retired to Tayma for worship and search for prophecies, entrusting the reign of Babylon to his son, Belshazzar.
The site is also historically affluent, referred to multiple times in the Old Testament, under the biblical name of Tema, one of the sons of Ishmael.
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