Posted on 03/05/2014 1:40:49 PM PST by imardmd1
Gobekli Tepe Summary
In 1994, almost forty years after The Urantia Book’s 1955 publication, excavations began at the Gobekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey. The Gobekli Tepe site already reveals 50 engraved stone monoliths, some of them dating back to 12,000 years ago, that are at least 6,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. A full excavation to the bottom of the site has not yet occurred, and only a small percentage of the site has been uncovered. The evidence suggests that the complex of round rooms with two especially large pillars in the middle were built for religious rather than practical purposes. Gobekli Tepe is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and mysterious archaeological sites in the world. The two main mysteries surrounding Gobekli Tepe are:
1) How did people this primitive cut, carve, move, and build with enormous stones in excess of 15 tons? The artifacts are inconsistent with prevailing theories about the development of civilization because every place else in the world, where ancient civilizations have built structures with enormous stones, there is also evidence of settled communities that practiced herding and agriculture. Prevailing theories about this region suggest that around 11,000 years ago, primitive man was just beginning to evolve from being a hunter-gatherer to a herder-farmer.
2) Why did this civilization decline over a period of several thousand years and then intentionally bury the site around 10,000 years ago? One of the peculiar aspects of the construction and art at Gobekli Tepe is that both become less refined over time. The older structures are significantly larger and more ornately decorated. There are clear indications that the site was intentionally buried but nothing to indicate why.
The Urantia Book answered these questions forty years before we discovered this mysterious site existed. The history of humanity provided by the authors of The Urantia Book recounts that a genetically superior and well-developed herder-farmer civilization existed in this area over 30,000 years ago. They also explain why this particular civilization experienced a prolonged genetic degradation and, therefore, cultural decline. Additionally, The Urantia Book says that, due to population pressures, inferior and more barbaric tribes drove out this more peaceful and advanced civilization.
Adding powerfully to the intrigue of this report is its relationship to the Adam and Eve Report and the Garden of Eden Report. These two reports also happen to reveal some of the most impressive corroborations of Urantia Book history documented so far by UBtheNEWS. The story of Adam and Eve in The Urantia Book is significantly different from the one found in the Old Testament and centers around a major genetic change that occurred 38,000 years ago. Starting with the Adam and Eve Report provides some background on the genetic issues that are relevant to this report; however, it is not necessary to read that one first in order to understand this one.
We are in very tight agreement.
Indeed. I am amazed how little attention this gets, considering it basically turns history on it’s head. Stuff this sophisticated 12K years ago, nearly twice as old as anything else out there? I truly can’t believe how they can blow off the magnitude of it.
The laws of time and space are relative in the sense that they work differently in different parts of the universe. The Vedas explain this.
LOL.
Very good.
I still think there is a chance this is the worlds first ZOO!
maybe!
:)
The size of some of the critters back then, could be..
What will they dig up next?
Jimmy Hoffa? Clinton’s Legacy? Obama’s real birth certificate?
I wish I had pursued archeology, and digging. :-)
Gal I knew in college was into that - she actually interned on a couple professional digs.
Hot...
dusty...
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Series! We lived together for about a year, she didn’t even own one!
I know you have a number of links to info on Gobeki Tepe.
Why not post the most intelligent and levelheaded and let some new folks learn about this amazing archeological site?
As I recall the site is at the top of a mountain so just dragging the enormous stones up to the site is an amazing feat.
This, and the recent discovery in Indonesia, which is just as old, are simply amazing.
You know the name or got a link? Haven’t heard of that one...
Yeah. I warned my people when we first came to this planet, “Cut up some stone and stack it up,” I sez, “you’ll drive them nuts,” but did they listen? Nooo. It was nothing but “Zortan, show them fire,” and “Zortan, give them a wheel,” and pretty soon the Zeta Reticulians move in and stack some rocks and there goes the neighborhood and who gets all the credit? Don’t even start me on the Sphinx. “Put Qzzlt’s head on a horse’s ass,” I sez, and look what the idiots came up with.
Stones. We shoulda just stacked up some dang stones.
Dude! When is your book coming out?
“this is the most fascinating archeological mysteries in the world, IMO.”
I think it’s pretty interesting, and as such deserves very cool mysterious music...and a movie!
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 -_-
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