Ancient mysteries writer Andrew Collins and chartered engineer Rodney Hale take a fresh look at this subject, realising the key to understanding Pillar 43's astronomical nature is the ball over the left wing of the principal vulture shown among its carved relief.

2025年1月10日 · Exhibit A – Pillar 43 Outlined and Matched to Regional Sky – my construct’s conjecture turned out to be correct. Pillar 43 depicts very precisely and competently, the stars which made up the northern sky over what is now Sanliurfa, Turkey (Göbekli Tepe) in 14,800 BCE. 6 Note the artist’s effective use of critical details, from the bird’s eyes all the way to the …

Göbekli Tepe's Pillar 43, otherwise known as the Vulture Stone, is arguably the key to understanding the cosmic geography of the site's builders and their belief in the soul's journey to the spirit world. Yet what does the stone's relief of a funny-shaped vulture actually represent?

2019年9月7日 · In this video I explain Martin’s interpretation of the famous Vulture Stone, or Pillar 43, in my opinion the best explanation available that may show clear links between Gobekli Tepe and the Younger Dryas Event at the end of the last Ice Age.

2021年8月7日 · Since the Pillar 43 started to be regularly studied, it has become widely iconic for the site of Göbekli Tepe (Sweatman 2019:22). It is simultaneously one of the most mysterious and captivating human imagination objects yet found in situ.

2024年9月12日 · Pillar 43, also known as the Vulture Stone, is one of the most interesting and mysterious features of Göbekli Tepe. This stone is found in one of the central enclosures and has engravings all...

2024年8月6日 · Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in southern Turkey, features several Neolithic temple-like enclosures adorned with many intricately carved symbols. Pillar 43 in Enclosure D, Göbekli Tepe. Image credit: Alistair Coombs.

One of the most spectacularly adorned pillars at Göbekli Tepe is P43 in Building D. It is decorated on three of its sides. The west-facing broad side is the most lavishly decorated. It...

2021年2月27日 · In the area of Gobekli tepe the solar year is divided into two seasons, dry season (end of May to start of October) and rain wet season (end of October to start of May). And in places with this kind of climate, the arrival of life giving rain is …

2024年4月6日 · Gobekli Tepe isn’t the only complex dating back to the end of the last Ice Age that’s recently been discovered here. In 2019 Turkish archaeologists began excavations at another site about an hour’s drive east called Karahan Tepe …