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This site is a real shocker if you are up to date on your history. It nearly doubles the age of the first known civilization, the Sumerians. Its actually located not to far from Mesopotamia, in Turkey. This structure was discovered in 1996 by a german Archaeologists, named Klaus Schmidt; who is now dead.
Klaus Schmidt
Gobekli tepe means potbelly hill in Turkish. After the construction someone intentionally buried it with tons of lose material, sometime around 8000 BCE or 10,000 years ago. This caused the site to be very well preserved, and protected from the elements. Who knows what would be left after this vast amount of time had they not done so?
The site contains 20 circles all formed by T shaped pillars, some weighing up to 50 tons and standing 20 feet high. There are over 200 pillars in total. So far there has only been 5 percent of the entire site uncovered in the last 20 years.
There was tremendous effort put into this place, with intricate attention to detail. For example these pillars here.
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Somehow they managed to achieve all of this over 5,000 years before written language and civilization. Main stream science will have you believe that this isn't possible because we were not advanced enough at the time it was built. That we hadn't yet broke away from living in small simple sects of hunter gatherer individuals.
This place seems to have been very important to whoever covered it up, in an attempt to preserve it, in the very distant past. I can't wait for the time we finally understand this place and actually gets some of it uncovered. Only 5 percent people!
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