POV: You’re carving a pillar 11,600 years ago · Göbekli Tepe
You're carving a pillar 11,600 years ago · Göbekli Tepe
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Göbekli Tepe, about 9600 BC: hunter-gatherers carved and raised 5.5-metre stone pillars about 7,000 years before Stonehenge's stones and the pyramids, and most of the hill is still buried.
Gobekli Tepe (Göbekli Tepe, Göbeklitepe), near Şanlıurfa (Sanliurfa), Türkiye: a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018.
Time & Space · Ep. 12
Visuals are AI reconstructions; research & narration by Eli. Sources in the pinned comment.
Next: 1683. You're shopping on a frozen river.
Sources and further reading are listed in the full story: Göbekli Tepe: The 11,600-Year-Old Monument Older Than Stonehenge and the Pyramids
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Göbekli Tepe: The 11,600-Year-Old Monument Older Than Stonehenge and the Pyramids
Around 9600 BC, hunter-gatherers in what is now Türkiye raised massive carved stone pillars at Göbekli Tepe — thousands of years before farming, writing, Stonehenge or the pyramids.
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