![]() It many ways its sophistication and finesse becomes the smoking gun confirming the existence of a lost civilization that existed even before end of the last Ice Age.Įach of Göbekli Tepe’s four main enclosures contain great rings of T-shaped standing pillars that face towards twin monoliths at the centre of the circles as much as 5.5 metres (18.5 feet) in height and weighing 15 to 20 tonnes a piece.Many of the T-shaped pillars bear human-like features in high relief, such as arms, hands, garments, belts and necklaces, showing that they are in fact sophisticated, abstract statues, representations of the first gods or great ancestors of the Göbekli builders. ![]() Göbekli Tepe consists of a series of megalithic (large stone) sanctuaries built, supposedly by hunter-gatherers, some 12,000 years ago on a mountaintop ridge outside the city of Şanlıurfa, the traditional birthplace of Abraham, in southeast Anatolia. It challenges everything we thought we knew about who we are as civilized human beings. Göbekli Tepe is the greatest archaeological discovery of the twenty-first century. ![]()
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