Göbekli Tepe produces world’s first pictograph
Posted On: Aug 14th, 2015 at 20:52
Turkey
The oldest site in the world – Göbekli Tepe’s 12,000-year-old temple – has produced what archaeologists think is the world’s oldest pictograph.
Scientists are still struggling to come to grips with this find, and even my most recent archaeology course and accompanied textbook did not even give the site a mention, which seems a little bit odd to me. And when I say scientists are struggling to come to grips with the find, I mean the site itself, not the pictograph.
Göbekli Tepe, which means Potbelly Hill, has been excavated for many years now and still only a small percentage of the site has been uncovered. It is without doubt one of the most remarkable discoveries in human history and deserves a lot more respect and attention than it currently receives. It throws the accepted ideas of archaeology out the window and tells us that we human beings were building complex structures at least 6,000 years earlier than has so far been accepted. That is twice as far back from today than we are taught in our schools and, as I’ve just found out, our universities too.
It’s about time this kind of knowledge filtering came to an end, and I implore anyone with an interest in ancient history to study the site and have the name of Göbekli Tepe on the end of their tongue so they are ready to tell their friends about it!
Pyramids? What pyramids? 🙂
