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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Göbekli Tepe Alternative Name: Göbekli Höyük, Gobekli Tepe, GöbeklitepeCountry: Turkey Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Sanliurfa Nearest Village: Karapinar
Latitude: 37.223300N Longitude: 38.922400E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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43559959 DrewParsons MartinJEley Bak_teria BrunoG jdeblois83 Kuba rrmoser would like to visit
ModernExplorers visited on 13th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 4 A brilliant site to visit - the smoking gun.
Loved the anthropomorphic stones and the animals carved on to the rocks.
The museum in Urfa is a must for the statues on display there
Jansold visited on 20th Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Andy B: would like to visit Visited in episode one of the BBC TV series Divine Women by Bettany Hughes
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4
The site predates that of Jericho. Only flint stone and bone tools have been found as ceramics hadn't been invented yet. Excavated between 1995 and 2005 by the late Dr. Klaus Schmidt of the Deutsches Archäologische Institut.
Judging from the published drawings and photos, there are what appear to be 6 buildings with elaborately carved T shaped megalithic pillars, among others. There are numerous animal and mystical signs engraved on the pillars, while the walls are made of good masonry. The workmanship is much better than that of significantly more recent archaeological sites. One is reminded, to some extent of the temples in Malta, which were built 5,000 years later. Some of the artefacts and at least one pillar were taken to the museum in Sanliurfa.
Dr. Schmidt described the research and excavations in his Book "Sie Bauten Die Ersten Tempel," published by the C.H. Beck publishing house in München in 2006.
The title translates to "They built the first temples." Dr. Schmidt's theory was that temples predated fixed settlements during the early Neolithic.
For the latest news see The Tepe Telegrams, Breaking News from the Göbekli Tepe Research Staff.
A new paper - Decoding Göbekli Tepe with Archaeoastronomy - which claims evidence for a connection with the Younger-Dryas cometary encounter in approx 10890 BC. Unsurprisingly this has been 'debunked' by the official research team, but do they really have the depth of cross-disciplinary knowledge to completely write off the ideas in the paper? There is ongoing debate in our forum
Note: Göbekli Tepe accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Also: A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site
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