This week there are press releases about the Southern Levantine 5000 year old megalithic structure Rujm el-Hiri's astronomical purpose being questioned.
The new research claims "Geomagnetic analysis shows that since the entire region has rotated over time, the Rujm el-Hiri’s location shifted from its original position for tens of meters for the thousands of years of the object’s existence, challenging theories of the alignment of its walls with astronomical bodies and raising questions regarding its possible identification as an observatory."
Stonehenge doesn't have the same problem.
The Eurasian plate has been rotating clockwise primarily in a north-easterly direction over the past several thousand years at a rate of approximately 25 millimeters per year. Given this rate of movement, over the last 5,000 years the Eurasian plate has moved approximately 125 meters northward .This shift represents about one-thousandth of a degree of latitude, which is insignificant.
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