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.
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.
This is in Turkey?
Profoundly depressing.
This site is one of the most important archaeological places in the world. Too bad.
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.
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?
