There are many natural occurrences that might puzzle a traveler. One of them is Al Naslaa Rock Formation, located in Tayma oasis, Saudi Arabia. Recent archaeological discoveries show that Tayma has been inhabited since the ancient times.
Al Naslaa is one of the most photogenic petroglyphs in the area. The perfect slit between the two standing stones and the flat faces are completely natural. Note the small pedestals supporting the boulders. How long will they remain balanced here? How did the cut in the middle happen?
Most likely the ground shifted slightly underneath one of the two supports and the rock split. Could be from a volcanic dike of some weaker mineral that solidified there before everything was exhumed. Or, it could be an old pressure crack (you see a parallel crack just to the right of it) that has been pushed/pulled apart some. Or, it could be an old (minor) fault line, since fault motion often creates a zone of weakened rock that erodes relatively easier than the surrounding rock.
Location: Tayma, Saudi Arabia
– via saudi-archaeology.com
Because the cause is totally unknown it is unscientific and misleading to state that it is natural.
It might be.
it might not be.
It could just as easily be an ancient saw cut for all we know.
Have you seen the cut stones at Baalbek, Lebanon? Rocks that weigh over one million pounds, cut and moved to a location and were later used as a foundation by the romans for a temple. The foundation stones predate recorded history, no dating possible, nothing known about the people who cut them.
The large rocks (pregnant woman) are around 1000 tons. To put this in context. Around 1700 Catherine the great gifted a statue to St Petersburg in Russia. Its plinth currently weighs 1250 ton though started out at 1round 1500 tons. The block started out from Finland and was dragged to St Petersburg. No machinery, no animals. 400 men and nine months including a trip on a specially made barge.
The area around Baalbeck is prone to serious landslides. It is my view that the recently found monolith was buried in such a landslide, possibly taking the work teams with it.
The monoliths were part of a retaining wall. This much is evident from looking at the site. Even with the massive restraints, some have expressed surprise that the temple site has survived. Another thing rarely mentioned: The quarries are above the site. They would never have needed to lift these stones. And the Romans were unquestionably expert in cutting/moving stone. Their methods and techniques are well documented.
like pyramids on Mars MUST BE natural so on Earth might be, too.
and that ancient temple “Ellora caves” could be a natural phenomena, same like life, universe, etc..
I think scientists might actually not really exist..
Shut the fuck up Martin.
Great find. Assuming that this really exists, scientists are claiming that:
A large rock broke apart.
The crack is almost perfectly straight, both in the horizontal and vertical axis.
Both pieces are strangely in balance.
They came apart due to natural influences, without toppling off their pedestals when they broke apart.
Both pieces remained equidistant as well.
Coincidentally, there are drawings on them.
Seriously?
Yes, it happens. If you were not told that the stones at ‘The Giant’s Causeway’ in Ireland, you would be forgiven for thinking they were man-made.
given example has nothing to do with a structure of a material of the split rock .
following your logic, pyramids are natural like Giants Causeway is and that could prove everything while proves nothing except for Giants Causeway to be natural.
“modern” ego has a problem to accept ancient technologies while there is more than enough of examples..
but I understand and somehow respect a need of having any explanation for a sake of comfort and preserving confidence in the subject.
please, keep in mind, than recently we hold so much of scientific garbage theories and explanation just because we have to hold onto something until something better and more consistent is provided. just look at the past and all scientific nonsense at which kids would laugh today but was seen as nearly ultimate and only true.
JUST BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT A PRIDE AND EXPOSE FOOLISHNESS OF THE MODERN THINGS
P.S. I have no problem to believe that one day kids will be thought in schools that Facebook and Apple always existed out there accordingly to studies that recently young people in America accept commercial in formations, advertisements as source of knowledge.
Why that (as me) imaginary stone can be seen from only one view? Why there are not further views about that stone?
I have seen the other side of that rock and it is full of vertical splits with sections falling away. The popular photo shown is, in my view, a deliberate attempt to create a mystery out of nothing. Rocks like sandstone/granite absolutely do split to a flat surface which is what happened here and is happening on the other side.
No they do not, yes they break apart with a smooth cut surface but not that straighf. Even now we do not havr the technology to cut rock with that precision.
Do you have the GPS coordinates of the Al Naslaa Rock Formation?
howabout, digging ned to it for maybe 30 meters. lets see what it is.
i wonder if the surface where the petroglyph is has also been cut as well and i wonder if there is a image on the surfaces facing each other ?
If you look closely on the inside you can read the letters FLESMIHLLIKTONDIDNIETSPE.
Moseh knows…
So we really don’t know what caused it, only a bunch of speculation. And you can’t prove the non existence of something, so saying it was caused my natural causes only is incorrect. I’m wondering, were the stone images carved first and then the stone split? I’m speculating that it was either caused somehow by ancient civilizations or else… Aliens… What else is concerning is how the stone didn’t lose its balance when it was a
spilt?
Que ces stèles aient résisté à l’usure de l’âge est aussi un mystère; il y a bien eu des tremblements de terre!