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Newman & Ainsworth: Secrets of Karahan Tepe

Earth Ancients

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The Winter Solstice Affects the Head

The head is part of the actual sunbeam coming into this chamber. It took about 27 minutes for it to move, this light to move around the face and go down some of the chin and neck before it then disappeared from the face. And then later, half an hour or so later, it illuminated the kind of top part of the head like a halo. We were super lucky with the weather. There's literally no one else there. Like, since it was covered over, like, what, 10,000 years ago, because they don't just excavate it. They weren't even excavated fully the previous winter solstice. But you can still see the head pretty well

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