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Gobekli Tepe - Paradise Regained? | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK
Topic: Science 7:03 am EDT, Mar 27, 2009

So far, so remarkable – and if this were all there was to Gobekli Tepe, it would already be a dazzling site: a Turkish Stonehenge, or a Kurdish Carnac. But Gobekli Tepe isn’t just this. One unique factor puts it in the archæological stratosphere.

Gobekli Tepe is staggeringly ancient. Carbon dating of organic matter adhering to the megaliths shows that the complex is 12,000 years old. That is to say, it was built around 10,000–9,000 BC. By comparison, Stonehenge was built around 2,000–2,500 BC. Prior to the discovery and dating of Gobekli Tepe, the most ancient megalithic complex was thought to be in Malta, dated around 3,500BC.

Really, really old and neat shit discovered in Turkey.

Gobekli Tepe - Paradise Regained? | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK



 
 
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