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.
Right next to Sanliurfa, Abraham’s birthplace, Ur of the Chaldees.
Archeologists have to be crazy to think that Tepe was built by hunter-gathers. Only a sophisticated, settled culture could have mustered the resources to build it.
Carvings into sandstone would be easier than the bluestone of Stonehenge.
There are hundreds of these holes - only a few have been excavated, while ground penetrating radar shows the other holes also have stone columns.
It probably started out as a man cave for Krogger and Lawg to hide from the respective missus while drinking.
From there, it became a religion.
They had music,dancing,and beer. That’s civilized!
