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The carvings at Göbekli Tepe even show the movements of the constellations. Image credit: Dr Martin Sweatman Acataclysmic comet impact 13,000 years ago may have sparked the rise of civilization, according to the authors of a new study. The event – which many scientists believe never happened – may even be documented at the world-famous site of Göbekli Tepe, forming part of a series of carvings that the researchers say represent the world’s oldest solar calendar. Located in southern Türkiye, Göbekli Tepe is a pre-pottery Neolithic complex that is estimated to be around 12,000 years old. Analyzing an intricately carved...

BEST EFFORT SUMMARY: Why has WEF shut down investigation of the site for 150 years? Gobekli Tepeis a 12,000-year-old temple (7,000 years older than and fifty times the size of Stonehenge and 5,000 years before the known invention of the wheel) that predates humanity's oldest known civilizations and is full of strange animal carvings and towering stone pillars. Discovered in Turkey in 1995, it is the oldest, largest and most mysterious archaeological site ever found. Composed of pillars that are upward of 20 feet tall and weigh 20 metric tons. Construction would require enormous amounts of work, ingenuity and...