"Schmidt's German-Turkish team has also uncovered some 50 of the huge pillars, including two found in his most recent dig season that are not just the biggest yet, but, according to carbon dating, are the oldest monumental artworks in the world."
"Schmidt's German-Turkish team has also uncovered some 50 of the huge pillars, including two found in his most recent dig season that are not just the biggest yet, but, according to carbon dating, are the oldest monumental artworks in the world."
Probably part of a support platform used to support large crafts landing there.. An elaborate game set for a bored ancestor?
Cool.
For those that don’t know, the “Urantia book” is one of those writings that purports to be channeled or written by non-human entities. In other words, New Age drivel of unknown provenance.
Urantia ordinary ping.
Very interesting site - and intentionally buried, so I’ve read. “Ancient Aliens” did a report on it - not sure about the alien part but the place is amazing. The guy with the wild hair was pretty excited.
this is the most fascinating archeological mysteries in the world, IMO.
I think Gobekli Tepe is the area where Noah gathered up his zoo. I figure the ark was built to float and hold together, not to sail or navigate in large bodies of water. That would require building the ark in and area that would make it likely the ark would rise, move a short distance, and resettle on land, not water. My thinking is that Noah’s Ark settled in the Ararat mountains on the Iranian border. ...Cedar trees, like the ones growing in Lebanon and Syria once grew in abundance near Gobekli Tepe, and I suspect they are what Noah called gopher wood, tall and straight with plentiful sap.
Whether or not Noah, or the building of the ark, had anything to do with Gobekli Tepe is another speculation altogether.
An interesting aside is a brief account of some of the flood’s survivors encountering remnants of nephilim writings and structures, and covering them up. I don’t think this was in the book of Enoch, but maybe Jasher or Jubilees. I’m too lazy to look it up.
Urantra nonsense aside, our hunter-gatherer ancestors were seemingly hard wired for religion. Any look at today’s hunter-gatherers would support such an assertion. Archaeologists and anthropologists consistently underestimate the intelligence of our ancestors.
With the fighing in Syria only 80 kilometers away, and a very porous border with Turkey.... farmers are already moving out of the areas near the border towns. Hopefully no stray rockets will come near this site -_-