When I say Ancient Sites what first comes to your mind?
The Stonehenge ?
The Pyramids?
The Colosseum ?
Or Angkor Wat?
For me it's the GÖBEKLI TEPE
After reading about how old Gobekli Tepe's monolithic structures are ,it changed my perspective on timeline forever and now I can strongly believe in my theories. Their astonishing architecture often makes us wonder how they were created and why would they go through so much pain in doing so. Perhaps the answer lies in the when, not why. Let's take a closer look at this mysterious site.
Each complex comprises of 8-10 pillars each weighing about 15-20 tons. What's fascinating is that according to our historians 14,000 years ago we had just started growing our own crops and we knew nothing about construction and architecture, yet we see this marvellous site here in front of us.
Gobekli Tepe is much older than the egyptian pyramids and the stonehenge
| AGE (years) | |
|---|---|
| 900 | |
| 1,938 | |
| 4,500 | |
| 5,117 | |
| Atleast 12,000 |
This site wasn't discovered until 1960, but was ignored for a very long time. Until a german archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt came by and led the excavations until 2014. At first they excavated a sub-rectangular, semi-subterranean stone chamber with a pair of sculpted, T-shaped pillars facing the center portion of the complex and were stunned to see what they had found.
Gobekli Tepe defies that entire statement by showing us the high effort and labour was involved in making these complexes.
Let's go by its height and weight of each of these structures.
The megalithic pillars are 20ft tall weighing 9-10 metric tons each. These T shaped megaliths were erected at least 12,000 years ago making it the world's oldest known megaliths.
The site comprises of over 200 pillars were erected in 20 circles according to the the initial geophysical surveys done using the Ground Penetrating Radar.
Today we use wheel loaders to move very heavy objects. How did caveman with the help of ropes lift something so huge and place it exactly where they wanted it.It takes over a 100 people to position one stone. That's a lot of workers for a uncolonised people. Even if they were colonized they have placed over not one not 2 , but 200 of them in a complex circular pattern. This requires pre- planning, coordination and a lot of time.
With the best of the modern machinery It will take at least a couple of years to construct a huge megalithic site like this.
Not many Wheel loads today can lift a 10 ton piece of solid rock. Its only possible with the best and most recent ones. So how did they build it at least 12,000 years ago?
So imagine how hard it would be for people who used just hammer chisels and ropes to build these structures. Sounds impossible but yet here we are. Is our history right about the neolithic age or is it time to rewrite history once again?
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The complex is now preserved by UNESCO
Göbekli Tepe will be open for public visitations after the restoration process is complete. If you wish to read the current progress, missions and reports click Here
If you wish to read more about its history click here