October
23
/ 2022
Located on the Ustyurt plateau spanning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are some puzzling ancient structures - or what remains of them. The plateau is a dry, clay desert which stretches a staggering 200,000 square miles and receives less than 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of rainfall a year. In the 1920s, a Royal Air Force pilot first spotted these ancient structures when flying over this desert. Dubbed desert kites for their shape, these ruins have been inspiring questions ever since, and archaeologists are still putting the pieces together. What was the purpose of these ancient structures? Who built them and why in such an unusual shape? The Discovery of the Desert Kites Of course, the Arab desert tribes known as Bedouins
