Concrete has been poured on world's oldest temple Göbeklitepe. Cigdem Köksal Schmidt, the wife of Klaus Schmidt who was heading the excavation works, shared the photos on her Instagram account.
Posted on 03/20/2018 12:03:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"They'd said they wouldn't pour concrete on the protected area"
"They've dismantled some parts of wooden walkway project that started in 2013 because they plotted another route. The new route is right on where Klaus keeps spacious to prevent crowded guest groups.
They had said that they would build the walkway down to the guest center and wouldn't pour concrete on the protected when Klaus was alive".
"I say 'destruction', they say 'road'"
"They are doing everything in a rush that Klaus didn't want as he knew it will destroy Göbeklitepe. I cannot explain the extend of the destruction which I saw as I visited Göbeklitepe this morning.
"I say 'destruction', they say 'Dogufli is building road, that is what project is'. There is not a single archeologist, Ministerial Representative or museum officer. While even an archeologist can almost act only with a Ministerial Representative during a site excursion, are the construction companies granted permission to do whatever they want in the protected areas?"
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Concrete has been poured on world's oldest temple Göbeklitepe. Cigdem Köksal Schmidt, the wife of Klaus Schmidt who was heading the excavation works, shared the photos on her Instagram account.
Thanks Texas Fossil for the links. This is appalling.
“King’s” villas cause outrage [Caria, in modern Turkey]
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Posted on 05/17/2008 11:11:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2017581/posts
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Posted on 11/01/2017 7:35:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3600548/posts
This is in Turkey?
Profoundly depressing.
Nothing before mad mo can be allowed to survive.
All that stuff is Haram anyway.
Allah commands it be destroyed.
This site is one of the most important archaeological places in the world. Too bad.
Now I’ve got this stupid Joni Mitchell song stuck in my head . . .
Göbekli Tepe, Turkish for "Potbelly Hill", is an archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, approximately 7 mi northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa. The tell has a height of 49 ft and is about 980 ft in diameter. It is approximately 2,490 ft above sea level.
The tell includes two phases of use believed to be of a social or ritual nature dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BC. During the first phase, belonging to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), circles of massive T-shaped stone pillars were erected – the world's oldest known megaliths.
More than 200 pillars in about 20 circles are currently known through geophysical surveys. Each pillar has a height of up to 20 ft and weighs up to 20 tons. They are fitted into sockets that were hewn out of the bedrock.
In the second phase, belonging to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), the erected pillars are smaller and stood in rectangular rooms with floors of polished lime. The site was abandoned after the PPNB. Younger structures date to classical times.
But, but, but? It is Turkey? Gobble Gobble Gobble.
Remember the blow up cemeteries too, I read they have already destroyed the one in Efrin.
Kinda like Socialists/Communists.
They serve the same master.
With Mad Muzzy Erdogan in charge I wonder if this was a deliberate act of erasing history. Islamic regimes are well known for destroying relics of the past. This site is the oldest known example of civilized man. It’s all cave men before this.
Who is “they”?
Crappy local contractors that needed to be monitored 24/7 just so they dont steal all your stuff?
UN hooligans?
Muslem/Turkish Federal troublemakers?
Were “we” this upset at the construction of the wooden walkway earlier this century, on the 12,000 y.o. UNESCO World Heritage site?
An absolute outrage, but what do you expect in a country that is run by a mad muzzie dictator?
It’s all about tourism in the muzzie world — other than ISIS, which just blows everything up (or pretends to, and sells it to private collectors, the better option IMHO).
Both ISIS and Turkey desecrate cemeteries.
Both destroy ancient sites they don’t like.
WTF are you talking about?
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