Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden?

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | February 27, 2009

[Steelfish]

Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? By TOM COX

For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides, he passed the single mulberry tree, which the locals regarded as 'sacred'.

The bells on his sheep tinkled in the stillness. Then he spotted something. Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a strange, large, oblong stone.

The man looked left and right: there were similar stone rectangles, peeping from the sands. Calling his dog to heel, the shepherd resolved to inform someone of his finds when he got back to the village. Maybe the stones were important.

They certainly were important. The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer's day in 1994, had made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years.

Others would say he'd made the greatest archaeological discovery ever: a site that has revolutionised the way we look at human history, the origin of religion - and perhaps even the truth behind the Garden of Eden.

[arealconservativeforachange]

The 6k nuts will be by to scream blasphemy.

[JennysCool]

Ping!

[freeplancer]

In before the 6k nuts start. Good call.

[DieHard the Hunter]

WOW. This is mind-blowing stuff, and entirely plausible. Amazing carvings, ay — particularly for something 13,000 years old!

This is straight out of the days of Conan the Barbarian, in the Hyperborean Age.

[VeniVidiVici]

The 6k nuts will be by to scream blasphemy.

And why should that bother you?

[VeniVidiVici]

There were herds of game, rivers of fish, and flocks of wildfowl; lush green meadows were ringed by woods and wild orchards. About 10,000 years ago, the Kurdish desert was a 'paradisiacal place', as Schmidt puts it. So what destroyed the environment? The answer is Man.

I'd say it's just as likely that the retreating glaciers changed the climate here to that of Saudi Arabia.

[ansel12]

Read his posting history he is something of a bait troll.

[VeniVidiVici]

Read his posting history he is something of a bait troll.

I gathered that. He surely added nothing of value to this thread.

[ansel12]

This is a fascinating article, if someone has links I would like to read more about this.

That part about the massive covering up of the site seemed unusual that is a lot of labor.

[eclecticEel]

humanity's innocent and leisured hunter-gatherer past, when we could pluck fruit from the trees, scoop fish from the rivers and spend the rest of our days in pleasure

Ho-ha, someone has a sense of humor at least. Why we should all just up and become hunter-gatherers; since it's such a paradisiacal mode of living. And I just love the little bit of rhetorical projection at the end; paradise was lost because of ...

... wait for it ...

... human caused climate change! Who could have guessed?

[freekitty]

And just who are the 6k nuts?

[Richard Kimball]

Fascinating article. I've always believed we short-change our ancestors in terms of their knowledge. I think their societies were far more sophisticated than we believe.

[this_ol_patriot]

Awesome and eerie. Click on the photo at the link below for some extraordinary pics.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html#

[IrishCatholic]

There are 6 thousand nuts who don’t think Mulberry trees are sacred?
What is this place coming to.

[Steelfish]

Thanks- the Smithsonian URL is great!

[TXnMA]

"And just who are the 6k nuts?"

The Ussherite YECs -- like the one who typically spams the FR news forum at least once daily with garbage editorials from YEC websites...

[Boanarges]

Thanks for posting. That was extremely interesting and something I knew nothing about. Good read!

[babygene]

I don’t think so... Everyone knows there were neither clocks or calenders back then.

[B-Chan]

Wow. Stunning story, fantastic post.