Explore Jojerry's board 'Lost Civilization' on Pinterest, the world's catalog of ideas. There over a dusty hilltop in 1. Shepard noticed a piece of stone sticking out of his field. He began to dig around the stone, eventually unearthing a 1. Its edges were precise and rising from the middle was a relief carving of a very strange animal. Upon closer examination it was determined that the finely chiseled stones have been carved by expert stone masons, using advanced tools. When the news of this discovery reached the scientific community, one fact became obvious, a Kurdish Shepard has stumbled upon the whats could be the most astonishing archeological discovery in modern times. Until excavations began, a complex on this scale was not thought possible for a community so ancient. The massive sequence of stratification layers suggests several millennia of activity, perhaps reaching back to the Mesolithic. The oldest occupation layer (stratum III) contains monolithic pillars linked by coarsely built walls to form circular or oval structures. So far, four such buildings, with diameters between 1. Geophysical surveys indicate the existence of 1. Stratum II, dated to Pre- Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (7. BC), has revealed several adjacent rectangular rooms with floors of polished lime, reminiscent of Roman terrazzo floors. Gobekli Tepe is best known for being an archaeological discovery that defies explanation. Theories about the history of human civilization are based on evidence that strongly suggests a pattern of progress. Lost Origins your best resource for all things ancient mystery, alternative historical theories, and lost civilizations. We offer articles, book reviews, podcasts, and more! Explore Sergey Chaukin's board 'Gobekli Tepe' on Pinterest, the world's catalog of ideas. The most recent layer consists of sediment deposited as the result of agricultural activity. The monoliths are decorated with carved reliefs of animals and of abstract pictograms. The pictograms may represent commonly understood sacred symbols, as known from Neolithic cave paintings elsewhere. The carefully carved figurative reliefs depict lions, bulls, boars, foxes, gazelles, asses, snakes and other reptiles, insects, arachnids, and birds, particularly vultures and water fowl. At the time the shrine was constructed the surrounding country was much lusher and capable of sustaining this variety of wildlife, before millennia of settlement and cultivation resulted in the near–Dust Bowl conditions prevailing today. Vultures also feature in the iconography of the Neolithic sites of . Some of the pillars, namely the T- shaped ones, have carved arms, which may indicate that they represent stylized humans (or anthropomorphic gods). Another example is decorated with human hands in what could be interpreted as a prayer gesture, with a simple stole or surplice engraved above; this may be intended to represent a temple priest. G%C3%B6bekli. And it has taken them 1. So far the archeologists have been able to locate circles upon circles, perfect circles – with carved stone pillars 1. Each of these pillars have been carved out of single block of stone and have been intricately decorated with relief feature of animals and birds. Tests have proved that G. Almost 7,0. 00 years older than Mesopotamia, long heralded as the cradle of human civilization. No other site is this advanced and its this old. The chance discovery of G. We have no idea, who made them.
They just come out of the dark of the last ice age, about which we know nothing, and enter this stage of history already fully formed. And to my mind this is indicative of a major forgotten episode of human history”. Could the discovery of G. To put things into perspective, the site of G. So clearly we have something that contradicts the global understanding of the evolution of Human Civilization. Curiously, after 1. Located about 3. 00 miles from Mount Ararat, the site many Biblical scholars believe to be the resting place of Noah’s Ark, the relief carvings of G. But do these provide any evidence of the great flood as described in the Bible. According to Graham Hancock, “Archeologists are aware of more then 2. Scholars believe that stories of a cataclysmic flood as described in the Bible is also found on the pillars of G. If this is true, that would push the date of the Great Flood, to the end of the last ice age. That’s thousands of years earlier than the Biblical period. Perhaps more compelling than that is the question, who built G? And how did such a site remain in such pristine condition, for more than 1. Philip Coppens seems to have an answer to this. According to Coppens, “If you look at G. It was actually buried”. However no answer has been found to why the site was buried. It could have been to save the site from invaders, or perhaps to preserve it, in a hope to return to it some day. No matter what the reason is, the fact remains that the site of G. And this could well be just the beginning. If human civilization could have thrived and existed 1. Bolivia about 1. 70. Your call. After all I am convinced.
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