gobekli tepe - 12,000 years old civilization!!

That means it was built around 10,000BC !!

 By comparison, even the Stonehenge was built in 3,000 BC and the pyramids of Giza in 2,500 BC.

The first is its staggering age. Carbon-dating shows that the complex is at least 12,000 years old, maybe even 13,000 years old.

Around 8,000 BC, the creators of Gobekli turned on their achievement and entombed their glorious temple under thousands of tons of earth, creating the artificial hills on which that Kurdish shepherd walked in 1994.

No one knows why Gobekli was buried. Maybe it was interred as a kind of penance: a sacrifice to the angry gods, who had cast the hunters out of paradise. Perhaps it was for shame at the violence and bloodshed that the stone-worship had helped provoke.



The shepherd who discovered Gobekli Tepe.

Archaeologist Klaus Schmidt poses next to some of the carvings at Gebekli

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