Video claims winter-solstice alignment at Karahan Tepe’s Structure AB

October 07, 2026

TürkiyeArchaeoastronomy

Settlement< 4500 BC

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Site mentioned

The video’s presenter claims that winter-solstice sunrise at Karahan Tepe’s Structure AB sends light through an opening onto a carved wall head for about 45 minutes. A time-lapse is shown, but published site descriptions do not independently confirm the alignment or the claimed three-times scale.

Structure AB is a 7 × 6m, 3.5m-deep rock-cut chamber with ten phallus-shaped bedrock pillars. The presenter dates the claimed alignment to about 6,500 years ago (c. 4500 BCE). On that claimed date, it would predate Stonehenge and Newgrange by roughly 1,300–2,000 years—not by more than 6,000. The presenter also discusses open-sided roof proposals and plans to present 3D reconstructions in Austin. 🏛️☀️🗿

Key facts

Karahan Tepe is an active excavation site in southeastern Şanlıurfa, Turkey.
Structure AB is a 7 × 6 metre, 3.5-metre-deep rock-cut chamber with ten phallus-shaped bedrock pillars and a carved wall head; pillar shrine is an interpretation.
The video’s presenter claims a 45-minute winter-solstice sunrise effect through an opening onto the wall head and presents a time-lapse. The cited site descriptions do not independently verify the illumination.
The presenter describes the wall head as three times the size of the surrounding pillars, but the available site descriptions do not provide measurements supporting that comparison.
The presenter dates the claimed alignment to about 6,500 years ago, or c. 4500 BCE. That would make it roughly 1,300–2,000 years older than Stonehenge and Newgrange, not more than 6,000 years older.
The open-sided roof proposals and planned 3D presentation in Austin are the presenter’s account of plans.

Sources

Karahan Tepe vs Göbekli Tepe: Differences & Similaritieskarahan-tepe.com

In Karahan Tepe's AB, the ten bedrock pillars are phallus-shaped rather than T-shaped; a separately inserted element brings that chamber's count ...

The Enclosures of Karahan Tepe — Every Structure, Exploredkarahantepe.net

Explore every enclosure at Karahan Tepe — the Pillar Room, the Central Building, the pit room, the Western Terrace buildings and more.

Reconstructing Karahan Tepe's 11,400-year-old Winter ...megalithomania.substack.com

Ten minutes later an upright blade of light appeared on one side of the oversized stone head protruding from the western wall of Structure AB (a ...

The Pillar Room (Structure AB) at Karahan Tepekarahantepe.net

the 'Pillar Room' at Karahan Tepe — is a rock-cut chamber holding eleven upright carved pillars watched over by a human head with a snake.

After the excavations in the Str. AA and Str. AB are ...researchgate.net

The structure may have influenced later monumental, phallic pillars from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN), such as Karahantepe (Karul, 2021) . The use of ...

Karahantepe | Taş Tepelertastepeler.org

Structure AB, adjacent to Structure AD, is also dug into the bedrock. Measuring 7x6 meters and 3.5 meters deep, it is connected to Structure AD by a staircase.

Structures & Sculptures - Karahan Tepekarahan-tepe.com

Structure AB's ten bedrock pillars are phallus-shaped, not T-shaped; its wall head is distinct from the seated statue announced in 2023. Geophysical surveys ...

Karahan Tepeen.wikipedia.org

The ancient structures at Karahan Tepe were discovered in 1997 by ... Carved head in structure AB (on site).

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