Columns of Rajajil

The Columns of Rajajil is an archaeological site of sandstone pillars in the Al Jawf Region of Saudi Arabia, dated to the Chalcolithic period approximately 6,000 years ago [1]. Sometimes popularly described as "the Stonehenge of Saudi Arabia," the site comprises 54 groups of trimmed stone pillars, each group containing between two and 19 pillars, distributed across a wide sandy plain in the Qara suburb southeast of Sakakah [1]. The site is named Rajajil from a local Arabic term meaning "men," as the standing columns are said to resemble a gathering of human figures when viewed from a distance [1]. Excavations carried out by the Saudi General Administration of Antiquities and Museums between 1975 and 1976 recovered stone tools — including scrapers, awls, and blades — as well as a quantity of pottery fragments, confirming a date in the Copper Age of the fourth millennium BC [1]. Further documented finds at the site include obsidian stones, sandstone vessels, burnt ornaments, necklaces, and beads of metal, shell, and bone, alongside fan scrapers [1].