Hugh Newman

Hugh Newman is an author, documentary maker, world explorer, megalith researcher, and expedition leader. He is the author of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World's First Megaliths (2023), Stone Circles (2017), Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia’s Sacred Sites (2008); co-author of Giants On Record: America’s Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files (2015) and The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain with Jim Vieira (2021) and contributed to Megalith: Studies In Stone (2018), Sensing The Earth (2020) and Geomancy (2021). He is published in three 'Ancient Origins' e-books and wrote the foreword for Andrew Collins' book: Karahan Tepe: Civilization of the Anunnaki and the Cosmic Origins of the Serpent of Eden (2024). He has been a regular guest on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, UnXplained, Search for the Lost Giants 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), In Search of Monsters (History), Mysteries of the Pyramids with Dara O Briain (Channel 5) and Ancient Tomorrow (US) TV Shows. He is a video producer who publishes regular films of his worldwide explorations on the MegalithomaniaUK Youtube Channel. He has articles published in Atlantis Rising (US), New Dawn (Australia), Nexus (UK/AUS), Mindscape (UK), Heretic (UK), World Explorers Magazine (US), The Circular (UK), The Leyhunter (UK) and on the websites: Ancient Origins, Graham Hancock and Academia. He has a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree (BA Hons) in Film and Journalism from London Guildhall University. He is also a registered drone pilot and has had his work featured on most of the shows listed above, as well as in Ancient Apocalypse (Netflix), Stonehenge: The Lost Circle (BBC) Megaliths: Forgotten World, and BAM: Builders of Ancient Mysteries. As well as founding (with John Martineau and Gareth Mills) the annual Megalithomania conference, he co-founded the Origins Conference with Andrew Collins, and has been leading popular worldwide tours since 2010. He has spoken at events in the UK, Australia, Malta, France, Peru, Egypt, Turkey, Spain, Cambodia, Java, South Africa and North America. He was awarded the Ancient Civilizations Researcher of the Year trophy at the 2024 4bidden Knowledge Conscious Awards in Miami, US. He is the co-discoverer of the winter solstice sunrise alignment at Karahan Tepe with JJ Ainsworth, and uncovered a forgotten Viracocha statue at Tiwanaku in Bolivia in 2018. He was also involved in the construction of a modern stone circle in Somerset. He currently lives in the Stonehenge landscape in Wiltshire, England.