Posted on 07/23/2018 12:09:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
From the mortgage paperwork. In about 50 different places its signed “Abraham Sep 9, 1913BC”.
It's unlikely to be the only such site, it'll be great when there are more, even greater if they aren't in some muzzie hell-hole.
Antediluvian? Why not? But where are the bones? Eleven thousand tears? Just a guess, one would suspect. Seeing how the stones were carved, were they not worshipping idols?
Personally, I don't see any particular contradiction with the Bible story.
Eventually the internet will consist of bots (artificial intelligence) and humans. As happens in the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", they'll be indistinguishable from one another. :^)
I haven’t read any of Philip K. Dick’s books, I should pick that one up and start there.
The Göbekli Tepe Ruins and the Origins of Neolithic Religion
Is Turkey’s “Stonehenge” evidence of the oldest religion in the world?
Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
08/09/2018
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The massive stone enclosures of the Göbekli Tepe ruins (known to many as Turkey’s “Stonehenge”) may be the earliest examples of Neolithic religion. What do the enclosures and the fascinating reliefs that adorn their pillars reveal about the oldest religion in the world? Photo: Vincent J. Musi/National Geographic Stock.
On a hill known as Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) in southeastern Turkey, excavations led by Klaus Schmidt uncovered several large megalithic enclosures that date between 10,000 and 8000 B.C.E., the dawn of civilization and the Neolithic age. Each of these circular enclosures, which many have described as Turkey’s “Stonehenge,” consists of 10 to 12 massive stone pillars surrounding two larger monoliths positioned in the middle of the structure. There are no village remains at or near the Göbekli Tepe ruins, suggesting that the unique site was a ceremonial center exclusively used for the practice of the Neolithic religion of local hunter-gatherer groups.
Given the early age of the site, equally surprising are the varied and often highly elaborate carvings that adorn the pillars of the Göbekli Tepe ruins. Among the pillars are detailed and often very realistic depictions of animal figures, including vultures and scorpions, lions, bulls, boars, foxes, gazelles, asses, snakes and other birds and reptiles. In addition, some of the massive monoliths are carved with stylized anthropomorphic details—including arms, legs and clothing—that give the impression of large super-human beings watching over the enclosures.
(a couple weeks later) That’s a good one to start; my first experience was “Our Friends from Frolix Eight”.
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