Archaeologists find 9,000-year-old shrine in Jordanian desert

Standing stones at the site (Jordanian Tourism Ministry via AP)

Archaeologists have found a 9,000-year-old shrine at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s eastern desert.

The ritual complex was found by a team of Jordanian and French archaeologists in a Neolithic campsite near large structures known as “desert kites”, or mass traps that are believed to have been used to corral wild gazelles for slaughter.