Jim Allison's “Great Circle” hypothesis, published online in 1995, proposes a worldwide alignment linking Nazca, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, the Napo glaciers, Tassili n'Ajjer, Siwa, Giza, Petra, Erbil, Mohenjo-daro, Khajuraho, Pi, Sukhothai, Angkor Wat and Easter Island. The video cites an Easter Island–Giza distance of about 16,168 km and compares it approximately with 10,000 times the golden ratio. It also argues that the sites sit on crustal weak points and that their spacing relates to 72, the roughly 72 years in one degree of precession. This geometric pattern remains a hypothesis, not an established archaeological finding.
Video presents Jim Allison's proposed “Great Circle” of ancient sites
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Key facts
- Jim Allison's hypothesis was published online in 1995; a later Great Circle paper describes it as first documented circa 2001. The search results do not support the claimed 1997 identification date.
- Allison's proposed route links Nazca, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, the Napo glaciers, Tassili n'Ajjer, Siwa, Giza, Petra, Erbil, Mohenjo-daro, Khajuraho, Pi, Sukhothai, Angkor Wat and Easter Island.
- The proposed Easter Island–Giza distance is about 16,168 km. The golden-ratio comparison is approximate: 10,000 times the golden ratio is about 16,180 km, while one quarter of Earth's roughly 40,075 km circumference times the golden ratio is about 16,210 km.
- The video argues that the sites correspond to crustal weak points and that spacing between sites relates to 72, with one degree of precession taking roughly 72 years. These are proposed interpretations, not established archaeological or geological findings.
- The Great Circle is a hypothesis, not an established archaeological alignment.
Sources
Great Circlehome.hiwaay.net
Great circles are straight lines that go all the way around the center of the earth. The equator is a great circle.
Great Circle. | Luke Burrage's Bloglukeburrage.com
Easter Island, Nazca, Ollantaytambo, Paratoari, Tassili n'Ajjer and Giza are all aligned on a single great circle.
Angkor Wat and Nazca lie on the great circle centred at Stonehenge ...researchgate.net
Angkor Wat and Nazca lie on the great circle centred at Stonehenge (red trace). Another great circle connects Easter Island, Machu Picchu, Giza and Mohenjo-daro ...
The alignment of Ollantaytambo with other ancient sites of the planetticketmachupicchu.com
Ollantaytambo is aligned with other ancient sites in the world: Easter Island in Chile, the Nazca lines in Peru, Ollantaytambo in Peru, the pyramids of ...
GREAT CIRCLE ALIGNMENT OF ANCIENT SITESrosolalaboratories.com
The claim is that many of the notable ancient sites on Earth are all found along a straight line around the planet, the Great Circle.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's central concept based ...vg247.com
The Great Circle theory, posited by Jim Alison and published online in 1995, suggests many of the world's ancient structures connect via a large ...
Paper — The Great Circle - Deep Time Research Institutegreatcircle.deeptime-research.org
It was first documented by Jim Alison circa 2001. Jim Alison is acknowledged for documenting the original great circle hypothesis circa 2001.
The Great Circle Is 60,000 Years Old - Deep Time Research Labdeeptimelab.substack.com
In 2001, a researcher named Jim Alison noticed something odd. If you drew a single line around the Earth — a great circle, the largest circle ...
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