A temple that predates Stonehenge reveals architectural planning may be older than we think

CNN ^ | Lauren M Johnson

[nickcarraway]

Researchers have discovered part of the mystery behind the construction of the earliest known temple in human history.

The Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is a 11,500-year-old stone structure that predates Stonehenge, according to a news release. The researchers used a computer algorithm to trace the architectural design, especially three of the complex's monumental round structures, to determine that the pillars were placed in their particular positions on purpose.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[a fool in paradise]

It's a bit smaller, idn't it?

[Olog-hai]

“Can I ask a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do ‘Stonehenge’ tomorrow?”

“No‼ We’re not gonna &%@‼in’ do ‘Stone’enge’‼”

[Fungi]

“May?”

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Seriously...this is News to CNN?

[Olog-hai]

“I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been…that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf! All right? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.”

“I really think you’re just making much too big a thing out of it.”

“Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea!”

[a fool in paradise]

Without the Troggs there’d be no Spinal Tap

Clive Franks sprinkled a bit of fairy dust on The Troggs Tapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Tx0C3zmVY

The Troggs Tapes (excerpt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so21yysv0cA

[Adder]

to determine that the pillars were placed in their particular positions on purpose.

Wait...what??!! They were not just randomly placed?

SMH! Whodathunk?

Jeers and sneers for that breathless report-ahge.

[norwaypinesavage]

"The layout of the complex is characterized by spatial and symbolic hierarchies that reflect changes in the spiritual world and in the social structure"

This is nothing but psychobabble. The writer clearly pretending to know more than she does, and thinks that she's disguising her ignorance. She's not.

[MarvinStinson]

“The Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey,”

That was in ARMENIA

until the Armenian genocide by the Turks in 1915

where the muslim Turks slaughtered the Christian Armenians and took much of their land.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Gobekli Tepe keyword, chrono sorted:

• "Baghdad Battery" : Possible Beer Purification? [2019]
• Prehistory Decoded at Gobekli Tepe [2019]
• The Gobekli Tepe Ruins and the Origins of Neolithic Religion [2018]
• Looking beneath the surface: Geophysical surveys at Gobekli Tepe [2018]
• Concrete Poured on World's Oldest Temple Gobeklitepe [2018]
• Archaeologists uncover monumental prehistoric structure on island of Menorca [2016]
• Have the secrets of a lost civilisation finally been unearthed? [2015]
• Has Turkey found world's oldest temple? [2015]
• Signs of world's first pictograph found in Gobeklitepe [2015]
• Göbekli Tepe Excavator Klaus Schmidt Passes Away [2014]
• Gobekli Tepe Report [2014]
• World's oldest temple built to worship the dog star [2013]
• Gobekli Tepe Constellations [2013]
• Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: a new wonder of the ancient world (9,000 B.C. Neolithic site) [2013]
• Humans have been drinking beer for 11,500 years [2013]
• 'World's Oldest Temple' May Have Been Cosmopolitan Center [2012]
• Rewriting the dawn of civilization ( Was Göbekli Tepe the cradle of civilization? ) [2012]
• Archaeologist argues world's oldest temples were not temples at all [2011]
• Göbekli Tepe -- The Birth of Religion [2011]
• 12,000 Years Old Unexplained Structure [Gobekli Tepe] [2011]
• History in the Remaking [2010]
• Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden? [2009]
• Stone Age Temple May Be Birthplace of Civilization [2008]
• Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? ( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old ) [2008]
• Mysterious Neolithic People Made Optical Art [2008]
• Turkish Site A Neolithic 'Supernova' [2008]
• A Journey To 9,000 Years Ago (Çatalhöyük) [2008]
• Is this the world's oldest statue? [Anatolia, Gobekli Tepe] [2007]
• Did we plough up the Garden of Eden? [2006]
• Sanliurfa To Shed More Light On History Of Civilization [2006]
• German Paper Reports World's Oldest Temple Is In Sanliurfa (Turkey- 10,000BC) [2006]
• Layers of clustered apartments hide artifacts of ancient urban life [2005]
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia -- Home To First Civilization On Earth [2003]

[Bob Ireland]

***Jeers and sneers for that breathless report-ahge***

Com'on, now; this is CNN. They only got the date wrong by a little over 5 thousand years!

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Sawdring]

I doubt thick it was 16 thousand years old.