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These desert mosques are of course Islamic, not to be confused with pre-Islamic tombs (crescents, keyholes, etc).
Sometimes they can just be a line of stones made in a few minutes.
By the way you will find many more tombs in
this area than marked on your 3367 kmz (I don't know if this is the latest and most complete.)
The work never ends!
No way mine is the most complete list! I know about more 30-40.000'ers with much more organized kmz structures.
Even in my main -
Eurasian burial mounds collections with 27.852 marks I add in descriptions that I am not to sign each individual object, but sites - e. g. : one marker for a burial field with hundreds of kurgans.
It is slightly different by Africa as here only I "sweep" to find lesser known structures (just think of the aviation marks, Emedi's mosques or the 'rondels') while also giving a palette for different kinds of old, built structures of the Sahara.
In my 'mosques' kmz collection I have left a line item, pointing to Mecca, approving Emedi did well orientation!
Well, yep - strange the loose style from Emedi...
Probably it is a tribute to him, built by others? What are the "P"s could be?... Search for the answers never ends and the number of questions just keep increasing! ( ;
Thanks for comments and great site photo!
Edit:
The 'gate' under the central 'p' 'opens to Mecca'...
Had he such numerous acquintances who could have filled that quite a spacious (30X70 meters) desert mosque at his funeral? (it was around 2005 as far as I know) What if each stone 'dot' represents one participian from the burial ceremony? - Just now I have thought, while know nothing about local burial traditions, so please forgive me if the theory is 'a priori' mistaken!