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Newman & Ainsworth: Secrets of Karahan Tepe

Earth Ancients

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The Winter Solstice Observation Area

JJ: Is it your feeling that each of these pits was a unique observatory? Hugh: It all got slightly different, like less or more. I mean, the pillar shrine is like a very odd sacred kind of subterranean,. almost area with these, these strange phallic pillars carved out of the bedrock. And combined with the winter solstice, you also got even my swetman has done some remarkable analysis and he believes there's a loony solar calendar there as well using the counting of the stones in the, in the pillar shrides.

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