The Basement: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Hugh Newman is an author, explorer, and ancient mysteries researcher who has spent over two decades investigating megalithic sites around the world. He is the founder of the Megalithomania Conference, now in its 20th year, which brings together academics, archaeologists, and independent researchers to examine ancient sites from multiple disciplines. He co-authored the book Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World's First Megaliths and has written extensively on giants, earth grids, and ancient metrology. Hugh has conducted fieldwork at sites across Turkey, Egypt, Malta, Peru, and Britain, and regularly leads research tours to locations most people never get access to. He appears on Gaia's Ancient Civilizations series and runs the Megalithomania YouTube channel, where he documents new discoveries as they happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25q2-hP6NgU&t=1s HUGH NEWMAN SOURCES & LINKS Website: www.megalithomania.co.ukYoutube: www.youtube.com/MegalithomaniaUK Patreon: www.patreon.com/megalithomania Facebook: www.facebook.com/MegalithomaniaOfficial/ Instagram: megalithomania1, hughnewman1X: https://x.com/MEGALITHOMANIAMerchandise: https://megalithomania.dashery.comTours/Travel: www.megalithomania.co.uk/tours.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today I'm talking with Hugh Newman. He's an author, explorer, and the founder of the
0:04.3	Megalithomania conference, which just hit its 20th year. And Hugh doesn't sit behind a desk
0:08.7	and theorize. He goes out to these sites and gets his hands dirty. He co-discovered a winter
0:13.7	solstice alignment at Karan-Tepa, one of the oldest engineered sites on Earth. We're talking
0:18.7	11,400 years old.
0:25.3	And what he's finding there pushes back the timeline on everything we thought we knew about early civilization.
0:26.7	Yeah, pushes back the timeline again.
0:29.4	At this point, they should just leave a blank page and say, we'll get back to you.
0:33.2	In this conversation, we get into Gebekli-tepe,
0:35.4	underground cities, standardized units of measure that shouldn't exist yet,
0:39.9	and a sneaky visit to some caves under the Giza Plateau that are now bricked up forever.
0:44.8	Hugh also made a case that the Sphinx might not be a lion.
0:48.0	It might be a leopard, and he's got the evidence to back it up.
0:51.1	Oh, we also get into everyone's favorite subject, Giants.
0:54.7	Everyone except the Smithsonian. That's true, and we get into that. This one covers a lot of ground.
1:00.3	And honestly, the math alone is worth the ride. Yes, math. Let's go down to the basement.
1:13.9	Hugh, welcome to the basement.
1:16.0	Thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
1:20.0	How do you go to creating the conference, which is, it's still running, right?
1:22.4	Yeah, for sure. Actually, this is our 20th anniversary.
1:23.0	Oh, my goodness. You know, so we like, having a bit of a celebration this year.
1:26.0	So this is the Megalithomania conference. So this is the Mega Lithuania Conference.
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