Signs of world's first pictograph found in Gobeklitepe

Hurriyet Daily News ^ | July 15, 2015 | Anadolu Agency

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Turkey's Göbeklitepe, the site of the world's oldest temple, may be the home of the first pictograph, according to a scene etched into an obelisk.

A scene on an obelisk found during excavations in Göbeklitepe, a 12,000-year-old site in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, could be humanity's first pictograph, according to researchers...

Ercan said the artifacts found in Göbeklitepe provided information about ancient burial traditions. "There were no graves 12,000 years ago. The dead bodies were left outdoors and raptors ate them. In this way, people believed the soul goes to the sky," he added.

Ercan said it was called "burial in the sky," and was depicted in obelisks in Göbeklitepe, which is home to the world's oldest-known temples.

Many of the artifacts being unearthed during the excavations in the Neolithic-era field were the first of their kind, Ercan said, adding that Göbeklitepe served as a religious center and that geo-radar works had showed 23 temple structures in the region...

In the meantime, the infrastructure work for the construction of a preservation roof in the excavation area has been finished.

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[knarf]

dino gave birth to triplets ..... y’can’t thumb pages of rock .... not even Fred could do THAT

[BenLurkin]

A very interesting place

[Jack Hydrazine]

Gobeklitepe Belgeseli The Worlds First Temple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IF5K5QDL8

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"There were no graves 12,000 years ago."

Don't tell that to the Neanderthals of Shanidar cave.

[jmacusa]

Cue the alien hunting dude with the big hair.

[SunkenCiv]

The article appears to be a PR piece. :') And...

[SunkenCiv]

I loved him on Babylon 5.

[SunkenCiv]

And apparently there’s been ground-penetrating radar surveys done, and more sites to excavate.

[SunkenCiv]

Still, the practice of excarnation is an interesting find (or guess), it’s always been unusual, and found among Zoroastrians where the can still be found.

[pgyanke]

[jmacusa]

That’s him!! Man, what hair, eh?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I think the article means in the particular area. It is called ex-carnation and the ancient Persians did it as do the Zoroastrians today.

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"I think the article means in the particular area."

Ohhhhh....

[pgyanke]

[wildbill]

They have done several stories on this Gobeklitepe site on the Ancient Alien series.

The question is of course why,how, who carved out these giant stela weighing tons and carried them up that mountain to put them in place.

[ExCTCitizen]

It says: ‘If you are poor...blame it on the evil Republicans. They aren’t paying their fair share of taxes - King Barak O’

[jmacusa]

The alien guy IS an alien! He’s been hiding in plain sight.

[jmacusa]

The real question is how in the world would any extraterrestrial civilization have ever found us at all? We're just a tiny little smote of dust and water circling around around a rather common, garden variety sized star amidst billions of others.