# The Mystery of Jordan’s Ancient Stone Circles

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2093925745525444834
- Source account: [@alphanmanas](https://x.com/alphanmanas)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 2026-08-31
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles) This perfect circle in the Jordanian desert is four hundred meters wide, and no one knows who made it.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=9) From the ground, it's just a low wall of stones you could step over. But seen from above, its shape is almost flawless.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=22) There are at least twelve of them across Jordan and Syria, and nearly every one is the exact same size.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=32) Whoever built them had no writing, no metal tools, and no way to fly, yet each ring is a near perfect circle.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=42) And here's the strangest part: the circles have no entrance, no gate, no door. To get inside, you had to climb over the wall. They are at least two thousand years old, and many believe they were built long before humans learned to write.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=60) Archaeologists have studied them for a century and still can't agree who made them, how they got them so perfect, or why.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=69) Twelve perfect circles sealed shut, drawn by people who could never see them from the sky.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1M7lpBWLubCl/en/the-mystery-of-jordan-s-ancient-stone-circles?t=78) What were they for?