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.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fndn2.newsweek.com%2Fmedia%2F93%2FTurkey-ruins-FE05-wide-horizontal.jpg&hash=87fe054777fa96c2b48923440f175faea64f7f4c)
THAT is truly fascinating! Wow.
More context: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b53f5/a_temple_complex_in_turkey_that_predates_even_the/
Clearly Mr. T was big even in ancient Turkey ;)
Quote from: Jacob on March 11, 2010, 08:20:23 PM
I didn't see this mentioned here
Pretty sure Tim posted it actually. Or Spellus.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
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.
Quote from: Jaron on March 11, 2010, 08:21:08 PM
THAT is truly fascinating! Wow.
They weren't Byzantines yet.
Very impressive. The dating is so surprising, I am amazed :cool:
Prepare to not be surprised. :P
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
This news is almost as old as the site.
I still managed to miss it :lol:
The wikipedia entry about it is surprisingly informative, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe)
The same can be said of some of the comments about the Reddit article:
QuoteHumanity: Being awesome before we had invented the word "awesome."
:D
L.
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. :)
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Quote from: Vricklund on March 12, 2010, 05:15:23 AM
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. :)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdata.bloggplatsen.se%2Fbild%2Ffilnamn-cf643ff6b98972134511127042ee32594606ca2347e1c.jpg%2Fversion-2feef2c3df75ec51a8eec2f6f73f36cb%2F&hash=578cde542f7fb491ba14f997f9c30b227f18e8b6)
:w00t: :w00t: :w00t:
What the fuck do you mean, eccentric? :glare:
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.
QuoteThere was a worldwide flood with 100 plus foot tsunamis, earthquakes, etc in November of 7640 bc caused by a comet/meteor. We call the parts that still exist proto-Encke, Oljato. It killed off most civilization for hundreds of years. by [email protected]
I wish.
I've seen it before, but it is still amazing. The date of complex social organization keeps being pushed back further and further.
The site raises a host of questions - including how on earth non-agricultural folks were able to build it. How was the surplus necessary to support carving and hauling huge stone pillars obtained?
And why was the whole site deliberately buried?
With only 5% of the site examined there is obviously a lot of interesting work ahead.