Oldest Known Temple in the World Discovered in Turkey
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by dimaks in News
Göbekli Tepe or “Potbelly Hill” is the oldest known temple discovered in Turkey recently by German archeologist Klaus Schmidt with his 40 Kurdish diggers.
Klaus Schmidt and team discovered Göbekli Tepe or “Potbelly Hill” and stated that this structure may have been built and existed about 11,500 years ago, suggesting around 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid and 6,000 years before the Stonehenge. The vast structure is said to have even predate the development of villages, industry and agricultural advancement. Schmidt believed that the pillars at Gobekli Tepe temple which is located near Sanliurfa, Turkey is the oldest known temple in the world, built by the hunter-gatherers.
Klaus Schmidt remarked that Göbekli Tepe or “Potbelly Hill” is where the scion of civilization jump-started and pushed mankind towards urbanity life.
Though not as large as Stonehenge—the biggest circle is 30 yards across, the tallest pillars 17 feet high—the ruins are astonishing in number. (www.newsweek.com)
Some 50 of the huge pillars were also found by Schmidt’s German-Turkish team and are dating as the oldest monumental artworks in the world, according to carbon technology.
Source: www.newsweek.com
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