Hundreds of Stone Tombs Discovered in Land of 'Dead Fire'
The faculty has been investigating hundreds of ancient stone tombs in Jordan’s Black Desert.
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The excavations and surveys point towards complex and entangled arrangements of cairn use and mortuary practices over time, with reuse of the tombs as a recurrent feature. The research has been recently been covered by Live Science.
Link: https://www.livescience.com/59785-hundreds-of-tombs-discovered-jordan-desert.html