Asset Overview
Rujm el-Hiri is an ancient megalithic monument consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at the center. It is located in the Golan Heights, some 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east of the coast of the Sea of Galilee, in the middle of a large plateau covered with hundreds of dolmens.
The Rujum is made up of more than 42,000 basalt rocks arranged in concentric circles, it has a mound 4.6 m tall at its center.Some circles are complete, others incomplete. The outermost wall is 150 m in diameter and 2.4 m high. The establishment of the site, and other nearby ancient settlements, is dated by archaeologists to the Early Bronze Age II period (3000–2700 BCE).
The site The site was cataloged during an archaeological survey carried out in 1967-1968 by Shmarya Gutman and Claire Epstein.