Gobekli Tepe – The Turkish Stonehenge

The title isn’t actually doing Gobekli Tepe justice since the Turkish archaeological site is 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.

Located 35 miles north of Turkey’s border with Syria, Gobekli Tepe consists of 20 T-shaped stone towers, carved with drawings of snakes, scorpions, lions, boars, foxes and other animals. The amazing thing about them is they date back to 9,500 BC, 5,500 years before the first cities of Mesopotamia and 7,000 years before the circle of Stonehenge. Scientists say that back then humans hadn’t even discovered pottery or domesticated wheat. They lived in villages, had no agriculture and only relied on hunting to survive.

Gobekli Tepe changes everything archaeologists discovered so far and it is considered the most important archaeological find in recent history. Klaus Schmidt, the man who first discovered Gobekli Tepe says the carvings might be the first human representation of gods.

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6 Responses to “Gobekli Tepe – The Turkish Stonehenge”

  1. dacey says:

    I’m sorry but I’m feelin’ a bit skeptical…….

  2. A mesolithic Disney Land!

  3. Dean Talboys says:

    You can’t date stone using Carbon 14, but there are other methods available:

    http://www.louistalboys.com/stonehenge/article2.htm

  4. rekonstruct says:

    Interesting post. Have to say, if this temple is as old as they think it is anthropologists will have to head back to the drawing board for some of their ideas about the progression of history. Most notably Marx’s ideas about infrastructure and superstructure. If you want to see more on this, check out my post: http://happymortal.com/2008/10/worlds-first-temple/

  5. ramona suciu says:

    I am not skeptical. I belive that Gobekli Tepe can be the Garden of Eden.
    I will go in Aprile 7 to see the place. I can say more maybe after.
    The work of german teacher and his team was amazing. Congratulation !!!

    http//www.yourguideonline.eu

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