Mankind's First temple found in Turkey
The Stonehenge ?
The Pyramids?
The Colosseum ?
Or Angkor Wat?
For me it's the GÖBEKLI TEPE
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| AGE (years) |
900 |
1,938 |
4,500 |
5,117 |
Atleast 12,000 |
This site wasn't discovered until 1960, but was ignored for a very long time. Until a german archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt came by and led the excavations until 2014. At first they excavated a sub-rectangular, semi-subterranean stone chamber with a pair of sculpted, T-shaped pillars facing the center portion of the complex and were stunned to see what they had found.
Gobekli Tepe defies that entire statement by showing us the high effort and labour was involved in making these complexes. Let's go by its height and weight of each of these structures. |
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The megalithic pillars are 20ft tall weighing 9-10 metric tons each. These T shaped megaliths were erected at least 12,000 years ago making it the world's oldest known megaliths.
The site comprises of over 200 pillars were erected in 20 circles according to the the initial geophysical surveys done using the Ground Penetrating Radar.
Today we use wheel loaders to move very heavy objects. How did caveman with the help of ropes lift something so huge and place it exactly where they wanted it.It takes over a 100 people to position one stone. That's a lot of workers for a uncolonised people. Even if they were colonized they have placed over not one not 2 , but 200 of them in a complex circular pattern. This requires pre- planning, coordination and a lot of time.
With the best of the modern machinery It will take at least a couple of years to construct a huge megalithic site like this.
Not many Wheel loads today can lift a 10 ton piece of solid rock. Its only possible with the best and most recent ones. So how did they build it at least 12,000 years ago?
So imagine how hard it would be for people who used just hammer chisels and ropes to build these structures. Sounds impossible but yet here we are. Is our history right about the neolithic age or is it time to rewrite history once again?
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The complex is now preserved by UNESCO
Göbekli Tepe will be open for public visitations after the restoration process is complete. If you wish to read the current progress, missions and reports click Here
If you wish to read more about its history click here
I think that the site is even more mysterious than your post indicates. It appears that the hill under which these monuments are found is not natural. In other words, the historical site was deliberately buried at some remote time in the past! (perhaps for us to discover now).
Also, it seems that the genetic precursors of our modern wheat from all around the world can be traced back to wild grasses found within a few kilometers of the site! Perhaps this is the location where hunter gatherers became farmers for the first time?
A very mysterious place indeed!
I believe that The high amounts of sediments excavated now are caused after it was abandoned 9000 years ago. The reason why I belive this is because the structures are supposed to be 2 floors below ground making it sucessaptable to high sedimentation of dust and sand over time due to weathering of rocks and rain water rushing in from higher altitudes . I might be wrong but that is possible too. Nevertheless our theories conclude the same that they abandoned it later on. Perhaps the answer to the places lies in the trail they created after abandoning this place.
Also yes i agree that this was the place where homo erectus first started cultivating. After several thousand years.
I wish i could write everything I learnt about this place in one post. I probably can write a book on it. It's just mind boggling!
Also what do you mean by the hill is not a natural formation ?
Very informative, I had never heard of this!!!
Glad you read something new you liked :)
Human body, space, planet Earth, transcendental activities...all of it contains a lot of mysteries ...sometimes we think we know a lot but when we start analysing our level of knowledge we are finding out that there is still a lot to discover...and this is it what makes progress possible.
If you are gonna be breaking it down to the fabric of reality we know just a decimal compared to the whole knowledge there is!
I must say the builders of this extraordinary place did a very great job. I commend their efforts even though they are all dead.
Well appreciation is no big deal anyway, but I sure they would have been happy to hear it. Happy to know that their work survived for so long and both you and I are talking about it right now !
Yeah, that is true, their work survived for ages.