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A group of three mustatil and later Bronze Age funerary pendants on a rocky outcrop, southeast of AlUla County. AAKSA / The Royal Commission for AlUla

Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrifices

Melissa Kennedy, University of Sydney and Hugh Thomas, University of Sydney

The rectangular stone structures known as mustatils were used thousands of years ago for sacrificing animals to an unknown deity – perhaps in response to ancient climate change.

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