About Hugh Newman

Hugh Newman is the author of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World’s First Megaliths (Wooden Books 2023), Earth Grids (2008) and Stone Circles (2017), and co-author of Megalith: Studies In Stone (2018) Sensing the Earth (2021) and Geomancy (2021); and co-author with Jim Vieira of Giants On Record (2015) and The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain (2021). He is a regular guest on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, Search for the Lost Giants, UnXplained with William Shatner and has featured in The Alaska Triangle (Travel Channel), Forbidden History (Discovery Channel), Secrets of the Ark (Science Channel), Mythic Britain (Smithsonian Channel), Ancient Civilizations (Gaia), Cursed Treasure (History), Mysteries of the Pyramids with Dara O Briain (Channel 5) and several other TV shows and documentaries. He has a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree (BA Hons) in Film and Journalism from London Guildhall University and co-founded the Megalithomania Conference in 2006 and the Origins Conference in 2013. His worldwide adventures and lectures can be seen on youtube.com/megalithomaniaUK. His main website is megalithomania.co.uk. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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Books by Hugh Newman

Megalith Studies in Stone

Earth Grids The Secret Pattern of Gaia's Sacred Sites

All posts by Hugh Newman

Stone Circles: A Worldwide Phenomenon
It is with pleasure that we welcome Hugh Newman, contributor to Megalith: Studies In Stone as our Author of the Month for August. Hugh discovers some of the world’s oldest examples of stone circles in remote and unlikely places, as well as seemingly shared ancient building techniques and traditions from around […]
Hugh Newman | 30th July 2018
MEGALITHIC ORIGINS: Ancient connections between Göbekli Tepe and Peru
At 6,500 years older than Stonehenge and 7,000 years before the pyramids were constructed, a cult megalithic complex sat atop the hills in Turkey.
Hugh Newman | 29th March 2014
The Olmec Origins of the 2012 Long Count Calendar
Two new discoveries have confirmed December 21st of this year as the final day of the Mayan Long Count calendar, but what was going on at the beginning date in 3114 BC and did the Maya really invent the calendar? Hugh Newman investigates the mysterious origins of the Olmec civilization […]
Hugh Newman | 25th November 2012