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Gobekli Tepe Geometry The second image below is a drawing made upon the background image from the website https://www.bozar.be/en/activities/106411-gobekli-tepe-neolithic-site-rise-of-civilization .   It is often referred to as an aerial view of Gobekli Tepe and is available in many places on the internet. Using Google Earth from a historical view in 2006 before the site was largely covered, the distance from the left center large standing stone to the wall on the east side was established as near 31.41 feet as shown near horizontal.   The azimuth was the sqrt 5 up from due east and west at 87.76 degrees from north.   The vertical line is due north and south. The yellow pin at the bottom has the longitude exactly 1.609344 x 5280/5000 greater than the latitude at 1.699467264 where 1.609344 is the conversion of kilometers to miles and 5280 is the conversion of feet to a mile and 5000 is the repeated use of 5.       On the scale of ...