Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge, This Is The Oldest Temple On Earth
The Gobekli Tepe dig site. May 13, 2012.
“Gobekli changes everything,” says Ian Hodder, an anthropologist at Stanford University.
It’s not an exaggeration. When Gobekli Tepe was uncovered in 1994, it changed everything we thought we knew about human history.
Gobekli Tepe is a massive, ancient temple found in Turkey, built out of pillars organized into great stone rings. The pillars are decorated with intricate sculptures of lions, scorpions, and vultures, twisting around their sides, but they’re more than just beautiful works of art. They’re the foundations to a structure, holding up heaving blocks that, some of which weight more than 10 tons.
The artwork and the engineering is incredible. That anyone could have lifted up 10-ton stones and placed them atop a foundation strong enough to hold them in place is an incredible feat in any time.
But what makes Gobekli Tepe so unbelievable is that it was built in 10th century BC – more than 11,500 years ago.
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