The archaeologists from Israeli have unearthed a 4000-year-old "rare and mysterious" Bronze Age dolmen in the Galilee hills. The dolmen is marked by its huge dimensions and the artistic decorations engraved in its ceiling.

According to The Japan Times, the dolmen was discovered inside a large chamber measuring to 2 by 3 meters. This was covered by an enormous stone estimated to weigh at least 50 tons, one of the largest stones ever used in the construction of the dolmens in the Middle East.

The discovery report found that the dolmen itself was enclosed in an enormous stone that is approximately 20 meters in diameters, and are estimated to weigh a minimum of 400 tons. The researchers have found at least four smaller dolmens that were positioned at the foot of the decorated inside the stone heap.

BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS has reported, the dolmen was discovered by Professor Gonne Sharon of the Galilee Studies program at the Tel Hai College. This is just one of some 400 stones structures dating to the Intermediate Bronze Age that was located in a field unearthed by the late Moshe Kagan in the 1950's.

However, the expert believes that the new finding will shed new light on the nature of dolmens in ancient Israel. About fifty such engravings were documented on the ceiling of the dolmens, spread out in a kind of arc along the ceiling.

Israel Antiquities Authority said that the dolmens tell a different story about that period. The dolmens tell about a society that had a complex governmental and economical system.

Professor Sharon said, "The gigantic-dolmen at Kibbutz Shamir is, without the doubt, an indication of public construction". The professor reported during that time all of those people had to be housed and fed. The building of such a huge constructions necessitated knowledge of engineering and architecture that small nomadic groups did not usually possess.

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