Video: Collins links Karahan Tepe enclosure to Deneb; vulture found in situ

November 04, 2026TürkiyeArchaeoastronomyNew ResearchShare

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Key facts

• The new upper enclosure at Karahan Tepe contains T-shaped pillar bases, a pierced portal stone and a seated human statue.
• The seated figure is described as about 7.5 ft tall, with a standing equivalent of about 9 ft, and has its hands placed around the genitals.
• In the video, Collins interprets the enclosure's alignment as matching Deneb's rising around 9000 BC, the construction timeframe he gives. This is an archaeoastronomical interpretation, not an established measurement.
• A small vulture figure was found in situ at the base of the altar area and is now in the Şanlıurfa Archaeological Museum.
• The Great Ellipse is Structure AD. Its southern point coincides with a niche; the video traces a line from there through the thin wall's portal stone into the adjacent pillar shrine and toward the hill of Keceli Tepe, described as the epoch's Deneb-setting point.
• Collins argues that the same Deneb-setting alignment runs through the portal stones of Göbekli Tepe's main enclosures.
• The video interprets the Great Ellipse's axis, 10° south of east, as aligned with stars of Scorpius, and a due-north line as pointing toward Arcturus and the highest peak of the Tektek Mountains. These are the presenter's archaeoastronomical readings rather than accepted measurements.
• Hugh Newman and JJ observed sunlight penetrating the pillar shrine at the December 2021 winter solstice.
• The presenter interprets the pillar shrine as a three-dimensional snake head, with a groove that may have carried water, and the adjacent pit shrine as a second snake head.

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