{"id":52559,"date":"2022-05-11T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=52559"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:05:52","slug":"who-made-these-circles-in-the-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/who-made-these-circles-in-the-sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Who made these circles in the Sahara?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someone left these marks in the sand. We had to find out who.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Deep in the Sahara, far from any towns, roads, or other signs of life, is\u00a0a row of markings in the sand<\/a>. There are dozens of them stretching for miles in a straight line in central Algeria, each consisting of a central point surrounded by a circle of 12 nodes, like numbers on a clock. And when we started making this video, no one seemed to know what they were.<\/p>\n

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Maxar Technologies<\/div>\n

We first saw the circles back in September 2021, after finding\u00a0a Reddit post on r\/WhatIsThis<\/a>\u00a0with coordinates asking what the circles could be. With just two upvotes and two commenters, it wasn\u2019t exactly a lively discussion. But seeing the circles themselves on Google Earth was fascinating: They were eerily perfect in their shape and regularity, but so deeply isolated in the desert. We were hooked on finding an answer.<\/p>\n