world's oldest temple

[feel the light]

Pretty impressive artwork from 10,000 years ago. I am surprised there is not more press about this place. How many of you had heard of Gobekli ?

As a non-theist, I find the connection to biblical stories fascinating. Because I believe the bible was created by regular humans, there is always the question of "why those stories, why in that place ? ".

Before this was unearthed, I think it was thought the Chinese, or Egyptians, about 5,000 ish years ago, that made the oldest stone carvings. Not counting pre ice age cave art in Europe.

I bet these ancients had elaborate carved wooden palaces. Surely, any people that did such high quality stone carving, would have done a lot of work with wood, as it is so much easier to work with.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html

[uni57]

I feel bad that this thread has gotten no responses. Sometimes the more sophisticated topics die an undeserving and untimely death.

I'll start... is that bird-man thing in the center-left juggling?


(sorry, that's the best I can do at the moment until I find time to click the link)

[johnfoss]

is that bird-man thing in the center-left juggling?A-ha! Now we have controversy! There are some who say the manipulation of one object if you have two wings is not juggling. The bird is doing contact juggling. A bunch of jugglers are going to be annoyed to find out they didn't invent it...


Anyway, sounds like a really interesting place. How come we don't hear more about it? Is the dating controversial, or is it so new it's just getting out there into the mainstream?

[feel the light]

Behind the neck, not in front, like the lame attempts, non immortalized in wood.

But perhaps I am reading to much into this. Not!!!!:D

Contact jugglers now possess the most ancient script depicting their sacred devotions, combined with the obvious love we all feel for parrots.:)

YouTube - Gobekli Tepe 1

I only learned of this place today. The sponsors of the dig are german, I couldn't find a video in english.

My impression is that this is to elaborate, in depth, to just be a hoax.

I don't know why this find is not a bigger story.

I am impressed that they found huge amounts of bones from wild game, no cattle, it was a hunter economy.

What impresses me the most about this place is it has stone carvings from hunter-gather culture 10-13 thousand years ago.

Only a small part of the site has been excavated so far.

[GILD]

Interesting.

Thanx for posting this.

[Mikefule]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/23/archaeology.turkey

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

[Jeremy R]

cool!