The footprint of the mysterious room in the desert floor measures eight by five meters, its walls tower three meters high. The rocky ground rises gently to one side. A channel runs around this ramp through which liquids could run off before they could have pooled on the floor to form puddles. More than 150 clay vessels were scattered around the room. Most of them are white cups and red-brown, bulbous vessels, so-called Red Goldfish Bowls – goldfish bowls. Some of them were largely intact, others broken.
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