Posted on 11/14/2008 7:46:29 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
It's more than twice as old as the Pyramids, or even the written word. When it was built, saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths still roamed, and the Ice Age had just ended.
The elaborate temple at Gobelki Tepe in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, is staggeringly ancient: 11,500 years old, from a time just before humans learned to farm grains and domesticate animals.
According to the German archaeologist in charge of excavations at the site, it might be the birthplace of agriculture, of organized religion — of civilization itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So, Eden was destroyed by Global Warming? ;O)
I remember getting a ping from you about this. It has made Fox News.
That fox looks oddly like Aborigine art.
Well...yes. But, the warming was initiated by a comet impact.
Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada? (Carolina Bays)
Damned! It looks like my basement.
So, Oppenheimer theorizes that ancient Eden (in Aia) was obliterated flooding -- instantaneous or gradual -- resulting from a comet impact? I recall that Sitchen argues in favor of an ice sheet collapse, causing the inundation of Mesopotania.
I haven’t heard of foxes being the focus of any religion. Coyote, on the other hand...
A news item on Fox inspires Barack 0bama to dispatch his bitterest rivals on a mission to uncover the meaning of the Turkish Monolith -- and dispose of them once and for all...
Alas, all is not well as our Space Odyssey hurtles toward Planet Gore...
Aphrodite was the ultimate fox.
And I'm using Firefox browser. Everything is coming together. Eet's deee foxessssss!!!!
“This story’s from Fox News.”
LOL!
- hey, the wooden guy can read their lips!
Or we just have the wrong idea when things existed. Pre-dates God? That is a strange idea, since he existed for much longer than our planet has existed.
Scientists want to find out how God did it. Religionists want to tell God how he did it.
Thanks! There have been a few topics about this site, including a recent one which (perhaps foolishly) I didn’t ping. :’)
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old )
Smithsonian magazine | November 2008
Andrew Curry Photographs by Berthold Steinhilber
Posted on 11/11/2008 5:08:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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