What's New In History - Go Fly a (Desert) Kite

At the dawn of aviation pilots were seeing what looked like enormous kites (4 kilometers enormous!) throughout the Arabian desert. It turns out they are something ingenious thought up by our ancestors at the dawn of civilization.Check out this episode with Bernie and Dan to learn all about them!Linkshttps://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-09-02-oxford-archaeologists-discover-monumental-evidence-prehistoric-hunting-acrosshttps://news.artnet.com/art-world/scientists-have-cracked-the-origins-of-desert-kites-massive-prehistoric-patterns-that-were-carved-into-the-middle-eastern-desert-2225003https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/world/oldest-architectural-plans-stone-age-megastructures-scn/index.htmlThis is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.If you like what we do you can support the Fan of History project on https://www.patreon.com/fanofhistoryContact information:http://facebook.com/fanofhistoryhttps://twitter.com/danhorninghttps://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse.Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 Support the show and listen ad-free to all of the episodes! Click here (remove the dot at the end for a working URL): https://plus.acast.com/s/history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.