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A presenter at The Cosmic Summit stands by a head cut into living rock and follows morning light across the sculpture. What he describes runs for about three quarters of an hour and starts a little after dawn. His team calculated that nine millennia before the common era the beam sat higher and covered more of the face. He calls it the oldest solstice sunrise marker he knows that was cut into a place, not piled up from loose blocks. Because the rock was never stacked, later hands could not nudge stones to fake the line. He asks why the hollow was packed and shut some eight thousand years back, as if the makers wanted a future visitor to find it still true. Through the rest of the year that beam does not enter. Only at the southernmost dawn does it pass, and afterward it touches the crown of the head, which he likens to a halo. The find felt like luck on luck, and he reads the precision as real sky skill.
Key points
- The light display begins shortly after dawn and continues for about three quarters of an hour.
- A back calculation puts the beam higher on the face around nine millennia before the common era.
- The marker is cut in bedrock, so later hands could not shift loose blocks to invent the line.
- The place was filled and closed roughly eight thousand years ago, which the speaker reads as a choice to preserve it.
- Light enters the narrow opening only at the southernmost sunrise, then touches the crown of the head.
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this is the earliest known winter solstice Sunrise alignment built into a site
The Cosmic Summit, A bedrock winter sunrise
He calls the carved head the oldest solstice sunrise marker he knows of. Watch at 0:17
these aren't stones that were placed there this is all Bedrock so they nothing can be moved
The Cosmic Summit, A bedrock winter sunrise
Because the marker is cut into living rock, nobody could have shifted it later. Watch at 0:26
Video by The Cosmic Summit. Watch on YouTube.