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Gobekli Tepe

2024/10/8
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Gobekli Tepe, meaning "pot belly hill", is an ancient site in Turkey that has revolutionized our understanding of the Neolithic Revolution. Initially mistaken for a medieval cemetery, its discovery in 1994 revealed it to be a Neolithic settlement dating back 11,600 years, challenging the traditional narrative of how human societies developed.
  • Gobekli Tepe predates the pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge by thousands of years.
  • Its discovery challenges the traditional timeline of the Neolithic Revolution.

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Gobekli Tepe is a profoundly ancient spiritual site that shouldn’t exist, according to conventional wisdom. The massive site of columns and pictograms was built thousands of years before humans were thought to have been able to create anything like it.

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