Situated near the city of Sanliurfa in southeastern Anatolia, modern-day Turkey, Gobekli Tepe dates to between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, which is known as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period of Anatolian history. This was before the people who lived there had invented pottery, when vessels, tools and implements were made out of stone. It’s 7,500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, 7,000 years older than Stonehenge, and it’s huge.

The site consists of a number of circular structures, supported by massive T-shaped pillars, the world’s oldest known megaliths, many of which are richly decorated with anthropomorphic details, clothing, wild animal reliefs and iconography. The craftsmanship for its age is breathtaking.

When discovered, Gobekli Tepe was purposefully buried beneath a hill that covers 20 acres of land. The archaeological site is incredibly huge and even though just a small percentage has been excavated so far, it has fundamentally changed the way we view the known origins of human civilisation in the very remote past, just after the last ice age.

It was then discovered that Gobekli Tepe was just one of dozens more sites in the region, all of which date to the remote Pre-Pottery Neolithic past. Turkish authorities have named the region ‘Tas Tepeler’ and have highlighted the 12 most important sites of interest, including Karahan Tepe, Ayanlar Hoyuk, Sayburc and more, with Gobekli Tepe being at the heart.

I have a new video playlist called Tas Tepeler as I look to cover all the sites in this region. Watch this video series here: [ Ссылка ]

Regarding Gobekli Tepe, many of you will have seen pictures of the circular enclosures and the finely decorated T-shaped pillars, including Pillar 43 or the famous Vulture Stone. But there really is so much more to Gobekli Tepe, and so, in this video, I will show you 10 incredible finds from Gobekli Tepe, most of which you may never have seen before.

A lot of the information in the video comes from the incredible website [ Ссылка ] This weblog gives an insight into ongoing excavations and archaeological research at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey and is written and created by the archaeologists that work on the site.

Many of the photographs belong to the German Archaeological Institute and are credited to K. Schmidt, DAI, N. Becker, DAI, D. Johannes, DAI, I. Wagner, O. Dietrich. I have used these images as they are the only ones available and they are used for educational purposes only to encoirage people to take an interest in the subject of their work. I would urge you to visit [ Ссылка ] to read their work in more detail and follow the outstanding work of the Gobekli Tepe experts.

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0:00 - Introduction
2:50 - Bucranium Porthole Stone
3:19 - Stone Heads and Masks
4:13 - Human and Animal Figurine
5:04 - The Unfinished T-Shaped Pillar
5:31 - Stone Buttons
6:05 - 'Human Head' Stone
7:05 - Guarding Beasts Porthole Stone
7:49 - Bone Spatula
8:31 - Dead Aurochs Pillar
9:24 - Gobekli Tepe Totem Pole

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