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Göbekli Tepe's Magnetic Spiral, Cup Marks & Cart Ruts with Hugh Newman — Part 2 of 3 | Classics Rotation
Hugh Newman explains a researcher's report of a spiraling magnetic field beside Pillar 18 in Enclosure D at Göbekli Tepe and why he wonders whether the builders sensed the Earth's magnetism. If you are interested in the wider Taş Tepeler sites, Olmec statues with magnetic hotspots, or what the cup marks carved across these sites were for, this part stays on those questions.
Hugh names visits to Sefer Tepe, Harbetsuvan and Sayburç and says a late friend identified at least 30 possible sites in the region. He describes Paolo Debertolis of the University of Trieste recording infrasound and then…
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