Discovery Of The Göbekli Tepe: The Primary Temple Humanity Had Ever Seen

At the windswept hilltop situated 6 miles from the Şanlıurfa– identified in the prehistoric times as Edessa – the American team, in relation with the Istanbul University, bring out the survey during the early 1960s. The team was examining spots across the southeast Turkey in investigating the transition from chasing and assembling to the starts of farming.

The group observed wrecked slabs of flint artifacts, fragments of sculpted rocks scattered across its site surface and also limestone. They had no opinion at the moment just how immensely important the place really was.

After three decades.

German Karl Schmidt, the late archaeologist had just finished his mines of the Primitive Neolithic settlement of the Nevali Çori in the Şanlıurfa and has been on the lookout to the new site where they could focus his attention. Schmidt scoured the records of Çambel and Braidwood and came upon the reference to the stone-littered hilltop, being curious as to the origins, he settled to go there by himself.  In the year 1994, he created his first visits. From that moment he marked the mound, that rises 50 feet over the surrounding landscape, and he was aware that it was extraordinary.

“Man was the only one who could have made something like this,” Schmidt said. “It has been clear right that moment that this was a huge Stone Age site.” He noticed every telltale signs which something huge was hidden underneath the hill.

“Within that minute of initially perceiving it, I am aware I had 2 choices,” said Schmidt “to spend the remaining time of my life operating here or go away and will tell nobody.” He chose the first.

The place that is being known now as Göbekli Tepe, engaged Schmidt for the remaining days of his working existence, until his unexpected and sudden death in 2016.

Enormous constructions came out of the dust

During 1996, the initial excavations started. Only inches underneath the surface, the group struck the carved T-shape monolithic pillar top. And then, another, each weighs some more tons and ranges in height starting from 7-20 feet. They created big circular enclosures with the pair of pillars towered over the rest.  

The enclosures had been rapidly buried and intentionally. Finally, another enclosure has been built nearby, and on top of an old one, and through the centuries, the layers created the hilltop which Schmidt had rapidly identified as a man-made.

These pillars are ornamented with reliefs, with some depicting animals, and others with symbols like discs, antithetic motifs and crescents. Some of these pillars have hands and arms and appeared to depict the human-like beings.  Only an acre had been excavated. Karl Schmidt said archaeologists might dig for more 50 years and will barely scratch this immense site of the surface.

The actual surprise came when the actual age was established. Its oldest section way back an incredible 11,500 years – and that is 7,000 years before these pyramids of Giza, then 6,500 years just before the coming of civilization in Mesopotamia. However, Göbekli Tepe was not a village and there was no single habitat traces had been found in that area. You can read more historic events here.