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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