Archaeology: Göbekli Tepe

[Jacob]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844

I didn't see this mentioned here, and I think some of you will find it interesting.

A temple complex that's 7000 years older than the pyramids and 6000 years older than Stonehenge, found in Turkey.

[Jaron]

THAT is truly fascinating! Wow.

[Jacob]

More context: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b53f5/a_temple_complex_in_turkey_that_predates_even_the/

[Jaron]

Clearly Mr. T was big even in ancient Turkey

[ulmont]

I didn't see this mentioned here

Pretty sure Tim posted it actually.  Or Spellus.

[Jacob]

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

[Jaron]

I missed it before and wouldn't have known had you not posted this, Jacob, so I feel something of this magnitude is well worth reposting.

[Tonitrus]

THAT is truly fascinating! Wow.

They weren't Byzantines yet.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Very impressive. The dating is so surprising, I am amazed 

[jimmy olsen]

Prepare to not be surprised. 

http://languish.org/forums/index.php?topic=3713.0

Also, here's an article from Smithsonian Magazine on the same site.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=1

[The Brain]

This news is almost as old as the site.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I still managed to miss it 

[Pedrito]

The wikipedia entry about it is surprisingly informative, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

The same can be said of some of the comments about the Reddit article:

Humanity: Being awesome before we had invented the word "awesome."

L.

[Vricklund]

In the 1920s there was a local eccentric that constructed a 20 feet copper pyramid to be buried in. When he died 40 years later he was dressed in a nobelmans uniform, embalmed and placed to rest there. I'm thinking I'll do the same just to fuck with future archeologists.

[The Brain]

In the 1920s there was a local eccentric that constructed a 20 feet copper pyramid to be buried in. When he died 40 years later he was dressed in a nobelmans uniform, embalmed and placed to rest there. I'm thinking I'll do the same just to fuck with future archeologists.

What the fuck do you mean, eccentric?

OTOH, he violated several of my tomb principles. For instance external use of high-value material that is likely to be stolen. What an amateur.