Nah.?ÿ If it was a surveyor, another surveyor would have already come along and marked it in the "correct" location and there would be two lines.?ÿ Or, there would be a petroglyph somewhere calling the line off by 0.08 north.
Splitting a rock is no big deal with a small crevice and water in said crevice freezing and melting to deepen the crevice.?ÿ Then one day, BOOM, the straw that breaks the camel's back arrives.
water in said crevice freezing and melting to deepen the crevice
Was there ever enough freezing water in the Saudi desert to do this?
@bill93 The petroglyphs show giraffe and other large African type herbivores which tells of a much a much wetter past and in winter it does drop below freezing at night and even gets snow on the rare occasion. About 6000 years ago weather patterns shifted and the Sahara and Arabian Peninsula dried out but prior to that the area was quite verdant grassland. My guess is the crack is in a fault line running through the stone that has weathered out over time and the second oldest profession didn't have a hand in it's creation.
?¨ Has anyone searched for beer cans in the vicinity??ÿ
It's an alidade sight.
Yup.?ÿ It can snow in the Sahara.
