I had never heard of Göbekli Tepe, and I find it absolutely fascinating. I don’t keep up with archeology, though I should, and these discoveries and the slow and careful building of understanding about the world’s past change our views of who we are.
According to this site:
In 1994, in southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish shepherd discovered the remains of one of the most astonishing archeological finds of our times. Göbekli Tepe.
19-foot columns expertly carved out of stone, decorated with sculpted animals that do not and may never have lived in the region have baffled the German archeological team who came to unearth this spectacular find. The scientists estimate that the structures at this site are between 11,000 and 12,000 years old.
This would be 8,000 years before Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids were built!
See Wikipedia
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