our planet is full of mysteries no
matter the advancement of human
civilization nor the massive strides
that we have made in technology
exploration or figuring out just what
the hell this whole universe thing is
all about in the grand scheme of things
we know very little as to the true
extent of our history as so far as we
look forward to the future full of all
of its uncertainties and possibilities
as is the same with the past the ancient
history of civilization is murky at best
and in the process of an earthing these
mysteries the scientific method has been
stretched to its limit of what can
possibly be known such is the case with
gobekli tepe the ruins of an ancient
world that potentially could change
everything so let's take a look hello
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today we curse you ask the question what
will we find a Quebec Lee tepee now to
first figure out just exactly what's
going on here it's probably best that we
give a little bit of exposition and for
the curious amongst you who are
currently sat scratching your head at
the thought of what gobekli tepe could
should or would ever be framing the
narrative is going to be a pretty
important first step essentially to cut
potentially the longest story ever told
sure Gobekli Tepe is a temple or well in
all likelihood it is a temple and
although the ancient world is myriad
with ruins sites of long lost
civilizations and societies temples
included this one appears to be from a
time even older than any of those
Stonehenge the Pyramids of Giza and the
Nazca lines included even the Sphinx
back in 1963 in the southeastern
Anatolia region of Turkey during a joint
survey conducted by Istanbul University
and the University of Chicago an
American archaeologist by the name of
Peter Benedict discovered a series of
strange stone tools collected from the
surface of the site initially the
research team thought that the area was
a Byzantine Cemetery and so the huge
stone slabs that were laid out in
t-shaped pillars were arranged in such a
manner that it was difficult to discern
from the site built on top of them
however the tools that Benedict had
found bizarrely pointed back to a period
known as the a ceramic Neolithic a
period of history dating back to between
10,000 and 8800 BCE in other words what
it suggested was that it was far far
older than the Byzantine Empire
and after radiocarbon dating the huge
stone slabs laid out before them that
only confirmed that some of them dated
back as far as 9,000 130 BCE this wasn't
Byzantine at all but Neolithic strangely
enough though the group widely dismissed
the site they brush it off for some
bizarre anomaly and that was that
I'm sure although they didn't know it at
the time what they discovered was
potentially the oldest ancient ruin
known to modern archaeology gobekli tepe
or potbelly hill in turkish that would
later reveal more than 200 concentric
pillars roughly arranged in around 20
circles each of them towering at a
height of up to 20 feet and weighing
over 10 tons each of these pillars are
fitted with sockets shewn out of their
bedrock the purpose of which is unknown
at best and can only ever be alluded to
some of them are carved with elaborate
sculptures of animals hunting down prey
Bulls foxes lions cranes the purpose of
which again can only ever be guessed at
and if these presentations sound oddly
familiar
then that's because they are this
ancient site with its stone pillars
painstakingly arranged in concentric
circles is remarkably reminiscent of
places such as Stonehenge and the Ring
of Brodgar but you see what is
staggering is that it predates the
oldest of them by over six thousand
years and not only that in chronological
terms it completely reshaped the way we
think about the ancient world you see
the extreme efforts that would have been
required to construct such a site does
not corroborate the way that we see
ancient humans during that period these
ancient humans would have been
hunter-gatherers roaming the rich
fertile lands in small nomadic groups
and certainly not settling down to build
giant temples of stone circles you see
what Gobekli Tepe suggest is that at the
very end of the policías seen before
pottery or metallurgy was discovered
before the wheel was invented before the
so called Neolithic Revolution began and
marked the beginning of agriculture and
animal husbandry emerged a group of
humans built one of the most complex
megalithic structures ever witnessed
under the most conservative estimations
around five hundred people would have
been required to extract the stone from
local quarries that make up the heavy
pillars of Gobekli Tepe then they would
have had to have been moved up to 500
metres to the site by manpower
alone now keep in mind that these
pillars wait anywhere between 10 to 20
metric tons and there are over 200 of
them this is during a period of history
where supposedly we as a species hadn't
even invented the wheel Gobekli Tepe is
an astounding 10,000 to 12,000 years old
and it was made with remarkable
construction it is beyond ancient in the
literal sense and if something sounds a
Miss then you'll certainly understand
the ever elusive mystery that has since
befallen archaeologists since is
discovering one of those archaeologists
and perhaps the most recognized mind
behind the mystery of Gobekli Tepe is a
man named Klaus Schmidt a member of the
German archaeological Institute who in
1994 took to attempting to decipher the
mystery of Gobekli Tepe after the
Istanbul and Chicago teams had long
given up on their endeavor that occur
throughout the 60s and the Schmidt had
been doing pretty much exactly that up
until his death in 2014 as Schmidt had
dedicated most of his life's work to the
site of Kibaki Tepe his reimagining of
the ancient enigma has lent itself to
some pretty compelling theories you see
after its construction roughly 12,000
years ago
these prehistoric people would have
gazed upon Quebec leader P as herds of
gazelle and other wild animals frolicked
among too gently flowing rivers as
migrating geese and ducks settled on the
water's fields would have rippled with
wild barley and wild wheat it would have
been a paradise and indeed we do know
the Quebec Lee tepee sits on the
northern edge of the Fertile Crescent
that spreads from the Persian Gulf up to
present day Lebanon Israel Jordan and
Egypt that is a given if one could have
imagined such a beautiful and abundant
place then no doubt as Schmitt suggested
it would have attracted hunter-gatherers
from the whole of Africa and the Levant
and here's where the leading theory
behind gobekli tepe gets astonishingly
interesting you see so far there has
been no evidence discovered that
suggests people permanently resided and
settled on the summit of Quebec Lee Tepe
it's south and what could that possibly
allude to why were these ancient people
assemble this staggering towering site
amidst this or inspiring landscape well
to build a temple of course a cathedral
on a hill a place of worship to the
natural world albeit one that would take
the coordination of an entire society of
hunter-gatherers to complete
demonstrating a method of human
ingenuity and feats of engineering that
never been attributed to ancient human
civilization now that would take some
pretty insane coordination regardless
highlighting the clear need for
communication between a society of
humans that existed over 12,000 years
ago and even more staggering Quebec
litre P was constructed 6,000 years
before the invention of writing
allegedly anyway and if you're not
impressed by now by the many mysteries
of Quebec Lee Tepe they consider the
implications of what we still don't know
sadly for us Klaus Schmidt passed away
in 2014 at the age of 60 and although
sadly gone his legacy remains as the
center point behind unearthing the
mysteries of Quebec elite epic in the
words of Klaus Schmidt you can have 50
archaeologists working on this site
every single day and you still won't
scratch the surface his best guess
though was that the answers may lie
beneath that very surface where Schmidt
strongly suggested that although no
evidence of complete human remains have
yet been found around this incredibly
important site beneath these massive
stone pillars human burials may have
occurred if that was the case then clear
compelling evidence of these remarkable
and mysterious people our ancient
ancestors would finally be on earth
perhaps then the evidence needed for us
to change our understanding of the
ancient world will be far too compelling
to ignore it may beg the question what
other mysteries are long buried beneath
this earth well there we have it our
long and short answer the question what
we're finding about Lee Tepe after all
it changes pretty much everything well
what do you guys think do you have any
compelling insights into what answers
lie at the heart I've got Bexley Tepe
they'll let us know your thoughts down
in the comment section below as well as
any other intriguing insights that you
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