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vinitjain


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As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important -- a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet.

"This place is a supernova", says Schmidt, standing under a lone tree on a windswept hilltop 35 miles north of Turkeys border with Syria. "Within a minute of first seeing it I knew I had two choices: go away and tell nobody, or spend the rest of my life working here."

Behind him are the first folds of the Anatolian plateau. Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-colored sea, stretches south hundreds of miles to Baghdad and beyond. The stone circles of Gobekli Tepe are just in front, hidden under the brow of the hill.

Compared to Stonehenge, Britains most famous prehistoric site, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.

Never mind circular patterns or the stone-etchings, the people who erected this site did not even have pottery or cultivate wheat. They lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers.

"Everybody used to think only complex, hierarchical civilizations could build such monumental sites, and that they only came about with the invention of agriculture", says Ian Hodder, a Stanford University Professor of Anthropology, who, since 1993, has directed digs at Catalhoyuk, Turkeys most famous Neolithic site. "Gobekli changes everything. Its elaborate, its complex and it is pre-agricultural. That fact alone makes the site one of the most important archaeological finds in a very long time."

With only a fraction of the site opened up after a decade of excavations, Gobekli Tepes significance to the people who built it remains unclear. Some think the site was the center of a fertility rite, with the two tall stones at the center of each circle representing a man and woman.

Its a theory the tourist board in the nearby city of Urfa has taken up with alacrity. Visit the Garden of Eden, its brochures trumpet, see Adam and Eve.

Read more at http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/temple.html

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Anthony Sousa

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What gives here? The picture being posted as "Gobekli Tepe" is straight out of Angor Wat !!!!!!!!!!!!  Identical to the one I have at home on my screensaver.  Who you trying to kid?  There is enough mis-information out there, we really don't need anymore, please.  

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I think that was sample image to show an ancient temple and had no link with temple in question

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Rich

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You sure its of Angkor Wat ?? I think thats the corret picture . Chk your sources

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What in the world is a temple inland, besides of course a huge contemporary multi-national company?   What was the temple inland of? 

The pseudo-science speak doesn't work if the writer just uses whatever vocabulary that comes to mind. 

Furthermore, what scientist woud refer to an archeological site as "a supernova"?  Apparently the back-story about a german kid digging in his backyard is this guy's only real archeological experience, he dug in his back yard as a kid.

How were the stones dated? 

I'm just not buying it, sorry.  I appreciate the story, and you sharing it, but I'll have to do a bit more research on this myself.

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Mark wrote:

What in the world is a temple inland, besides of course a huge contemporary multi-national company?   What was the temple inland of? 

The pseudo-science speak doesn't work if the writer just uses whatever vocabulary that comes to mind. 

Furthermore, what scientist woud refer to an archeological site as "a supernova"?  Apparently the back-story about a german kid digging in his backyard is this guy's only real archeological experience, he dug in his back yard as a kid.

How were the stones dated? 

I'm just not buying it, sorry.  I appreciate the story, and you sharing it, but I'll have to do a bit more research on this myself.


After more research, the article does seem to include quite an interesting site.  I shouldn't have doubted the esteemed Klaus Schmidt.   I still haven't been able to find one reference to a temple inland in regards to anything other than the corporation however. 

 



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This indeed had become an enormous topic of interest .. Several people have several theories .. but the one stated in article seems to the closest it can get to .. Interesting read .. I am doing my own research on this and will post someting soon

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5 years ago..

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