Rujum Al-Hiri

Rujm el-Hiri or Gilgal Refaim, and also known as the Wheel of Giants, is an ancient stone, or megalithic, structure consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus, a mound of earth and stone, at its center [1]. It is located in the Golan Heights some 16 kilometres east of the coast of the Sea of Galilee, in the middle of a large plateau covered with hundreds of dolmens, single chamber tombs of stone [1]. Made up of more than 42,000 basalt rocks arranged in concentric circles, Rujm al-Hiri has a mound 15 feet tall at its center [1]. The establishment of the site, and other nearby ancient settlements, is dated by archaeologists to the Early Bronze Age II period (3000–2700 BCE) [1]. The remains consist of a large circle of basalt rocks containing four smaller concentric circles, each getting progressively thinner; some are complete, others incomplete [1]. The site was cataloged during an archaeological survey carried out in 1967–1968 by Shmarya Guttman and Claire Epstein [1].