RIR-Klaus Schmidt-Göbekli Tepe-The Worlds Oldest Temple?

[benskin79]

The angle at the top of the columns look to be about 10*-15*, towards a higher radial center. Just like a roof in warm, relatively dry environment all over the world today. Remember, just because a ruin looks rough now doesn't mean that some ancient real estate agent didn't proudly show it off with plaster, a full roof, and amenities when it was new.

Also, the name is modern. Locals gave it that name, because it looks like a belly. For all we know, it was known as "Marduk's Sexy Pancake House".

[begood20000]

He said 20 years- Why does it take so long to excavate a site like this?

[odaymustdie]

@begood20000 Excavation is a delicate job, using fine brushes and other fine equipment.. It needs to be handled with care, so not to break artefacts. Thats why it takes decades.

[theMacvarish]

@begood20000 :archeologists charge by the hour :-) On a site like this the largest tool used will be a shovel, the majority of the excavation will be done, by hand, using a small brick trowel. All of the material is then sifted for fragments, then sifted again for pollen, seeds and insect remains. Samples are taken from each layer,( perhaps 100mm), and retained for chemical and geological tests..... Klaus Schmidt will probably die on the job.

[begood20000]

@theMacvarish You're right and I understand it is a delicate process but how big can Gobekli Tepe be that they are still going at it after 18 years?

[Kingwillis10]

"what is the most surprising is we didn't expect it to be from Hunter Gatherers"

Is it not about time, the world, everyone, even the most conservative scientists and archaeologists, need to come to a unanimous decision that we need to re-write our whole chronology. It pains me for the man leading this operation to honestly believe in this horse-shit that the Ancients were fucking Hunter Gatherer, Barbaric, Sacrificial loonies, when really they were and are better than us and more advance! Fact

[TheJimmax]

What reason is their to think this is a temple?

[johnbarkand]

@TheJimmax good thought thank-you max

[The3antarofLeb]

these petroglyphs from nearby Armenia offers some insight into the culture 16 to 9th millenium BC

/watch?v=qvY4AvKfCvk

[slymax6969]

The question is why that big, why the angle on top of the stones, if you watch carefully, it is round it is at an angle on top maybe just maybe it was a some kind of pedestal for flying saucer, people at that time worshiped everything that was alive so maybe just maybe that was as simple as that......

BTW I think that they were thought or told to do that....

[Kingwillis10]

@slymax6969 So why would they deliberately cover the bloody place up with sand? If you owned a helipad you won't cover it in cement after take-off as you won't know where to land when returning. If you were smart enough to build a 'flying saucer' you would at least apply it with tripods for landing, or would you build a megalithic structure for every place you were going to 'land'. What would your spaceship do for 100 yrs while you were buildings the structures to eventually 'land'?

[TheMagneto187]

Noah's Ark is also in Turkey. ancient greek medusa head is underneath Istanbul, the largest of several hundred ancient Bisilica Cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul.

[snafujunction]

So interesting...that participants possibly came from hundreds of miles away to worship what...life and death...no god....no individual....no king....

[MrStoneClark]

This Schmidt dude is an idiot... no relationship to the sky?! He doesnt rule it out though... HAHAHAHAHA Peace

[abarrathemaster]

@MrStoneClark yell we know that crab people bulit gobliki tepe as a nucaral reactor on their plan to conqure the galaxy. Liky Dr who team up with star terk to go back in time and stop them.

Schmidt is too dumb to know any of it, because we are smart and the rest of the poplation is sheeple

[lukesteele1]

What's even more amazing is that these off-balanced shaped T columns look just like aerial images found on Mars by NASA!! Check it out on Google Earth, just select Mars or my channel.

[linkags]

this is the most interesting doc on youtube about gobleki tepe

[nmg70nmg]

Why do these things need to be temples or places of worship? Why not town centers, elaborate homes, business structure, etc... come on get real!

[BachScholar]

(cont.) A news story reported Turkish archaeologists discovered what they think may be Noah's skeleton, which is 12 feet tall. Pre-flood people were what we would consider today as "giants" as tall as 12 or more feet. How were 18-foot high 100 ton granite pillars transported? By scrawny 5-foot tall cave men or by 12-foot tall giants? Also, assuming GT came from pre-flood times, this would explain why there are no pottery remains. They simply got washed away in the flood.

[BachScholar]

It's irresponsible of Schmidt for scoffing at and discounting the Noah's Ark account as having any relation. Archaeology has proven the Bible to be incredibly accurate in its depiction of history. I think Gobekli Tepe was built by the immediate descendents of Adam and Eve, who were created just south in the Garden of Eden in Iraq. Noah was born and raised a few thousand years later somewhere between Iraq and Turkey and his ark landed just north of Gobekli Tepe in Mt. Ararat.

[parade]

@BachScholar LOL "descendents of Adam and Eve". I can't take anything you think seriously if you believe in the bible in that literal of a sense.

[jayraskin]

@BachScholar The Noah fairy tale was written in 800-700 BCE and based on the Mesopotamian Utnapishtim tale written circa 2200 BCE. This site is from 9500 to 8000 BCE. Connecting the two is like saying that Stonehenge was built commemorate World War II. It is more than just nonsense, it is childish nonsense.

[NeedsEvidence]

Fascinating. Science rocks!

[budamage]

CHECK UP NOVEMBER 9th CNN NEWS(CNN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORES THE SECRETS OF ARMENIA'S STONEHENGE.)PLEAS

[budamage]

to mr klaus schmidt. Gobekli tepe it is located in historic ARMENIA(Armenian plateau )HOLY ARARAT"what is today turkey 'pleas tell the truth. it is a fact

[outsidelight1]

@budamage Prof Schmidt is only interested in facts that he can determine and doesn't have an agenda. Armenians always seem to have an agenda. That is why whenever anything interesting is discovers an Armenian sticks his head out of a hole and tries to claim it on behalf of some stone age proto Armenian conjured up out Armenian mythology. It is all very desperate! This is much older and has a different purpose from "Armenia's Stonehenge" both of which pre date Armenians' existence in the region

[xxxPassiexxx]

What we think about history is soo wrong Before humans can build this they need to evolve This is 10 000 BC Looking at sculpture details they had some experience Thus have to been creating art at least since 20-15 000 BC to learn to create Gobekli Tepe from cavemen 2 smart human That means the history about the date of the ice age might be wrong too Or we outlived various ice ages as humanity. 10500 BC Lion,Gobekli Tepe,Yonaguni And 3000 BC ? Noah's Arc Bible start and what evolution theory says

[Revival1969]

I find it really frustrating that some people stubbornly stick to the silly school-book orthodox history, this very site makes orthodoxhistory look sooooo stupid.

You really think a culture that didn't even know how to make a bloody clay pot could make this HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Obviously the past Civilizations were far more advanced than we in our utter arrogance try to ignore and hope it will just go away. But it wont go away, it's there in Southern Turkey, go and see it with your own eyes!

[Razzer1356]

Very interesting interview . I couldn't help noticing a few of the comments by people that can't believe that smart people with simple tools and abundant food could build these things . All it takes is ropes , poles and some hard stones . You don't need a computer or an engineer to build stuff . We are not any more evolved then they were then . What an amazing find .

[Revival1969]

@Razzer1356 Try moving 1000 ton blocks up a hill and postioning it with many others like the foundation stones of the Temple of Baalbek, you people make me laugh, you really think people little more than cave men could do this?

The very knowledge required to even carve these takes a culture AGES to learn and aquire, stop talking like an orthodox 5 year old.

WAKE UP!

[abarrathemaster]

@Revival1969 you must be one of those people who think that cave men are a beach of morons. we cave men are sick and tire of people like you descounted cave men as savages. We invented fire and are the first artist. Ever invenation that you moderns came up with always led harm to the envimorment.

we cave men rock you suck.

Cave Power!

[xxvladekxx]

@Razzer1356 clearly you do not have an understanding of the worlds history, as you've entirley missed the point of this video, What an amazing find.

[Razzer1356]

@xxvladekxx Oh so sorry , but I do indeed have a very good understanding of world history and prehistory . I'm curious as to your point as I do realize this is a super find and think it's very exciting . I have actually been expecting a find like this to surface as I have believed for the last 30 years that human civilitzation is far older then current dogma would have you believe .

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@MPHcirca1989 Absolutely.

[L00kng]

I'm glad that a skeptic is in charge of the dig. It would be much worse if the Head of the dig had a specific agenda and were tempted to only find things that coincided with his theory. This sort of thing happens and it really gets in the way of research. This is really important and I hope they can somehow find a way to create models of each one as they go deeper, because they have to destroy one to find the next one.

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

In the act of doing comes enlightenment. The original Masons imparted a knowledge that could only be gained from the apprentices by the work. Real masons, stone workers, not some social club. What if these animals were not common? It is then like an encyclopedia of animal types. Imagine anything we build today being in use for 4000 years. The closest to that might be China. We could not builf a Gobleki Teppe today using the most modern equipment...we simply have no clue. We were advanced then.

[ethankegley]

Robbert Schock's interview on this subject was quite good.

[outsidelight1]

What a fascinating interview. This is a fabulous site with huge implications. Superb. We need to have a book. This site is worth a visit- I have been twice and will visit again soon.

[blueshadow1960]

we need to see the whole thing to understand it

[blueshadow1960]

build a big hang over the site to protect the site and clear all the site

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

Brain washed? I'm the one trying to hear you out with an open mind but, all you respond with are vague references and insults; which doesn't lend much credibility to your argument. I read the Newsweek article when it was published, and the site itself as been known years, neither of which calls into question the validity of the current findings. Unsupported speculations are a dime a dozen, if you can’t support your claims, then that is all they are. Don’t believe everything you read on the net.

[Revival1969]

A Hunter Gather society managed to haul 60 ton stone blocks, and shape them with superb precision? all over this area, then cover it with a huge hill?... rofl, what a load of old bollocks.

Furthermore, why surround these great monoliths, with a crappy rough wall?... The styles are totally different. All this does is raise more mysteries.

Hard for the orthodox to swallow the fact that past cilivilizations were far more advanced than we give them credit for.

[abarrathemaster]

@Revival1969 we hunter gathers are afanded of what you said, 

[ehswan]

This comment stream is very good, well worth reading. Fellow travelers. I can add little except for; Didn't this happen at around the end of the last ICE AGE! Can you imagine how extreme the weather would have been then? Ice, meet fire. Severe weather, severe storms, SEVERE FLOODING!

[gvman3670]

I've been reading up on this, checking out 'net videos and even checking it out on Google Earth. It's fascinating. But one thing really, really puzzles me. I live in a somewhat mountainous region in the NE USA. The higher lookouts are around 2400' above sea level and you can see for miles and miles. GT is over 2500' and it got covered with what appears to be over 20' of sandy soil. How would this happen through natural geological events? That's the OPPOSITE of what happens here......???????

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@gvman3670 For unknown reasons, Gobekli Tepe began to be intentionally buried in about the 8th millennium BC. We may never know why, but it’s probably fair to assume that it had something to do with the sight suffering from a diminished, or otherwise altered, significance do to a religious “changing of the guard” as the culture developed from hunting and gathering, into a sedentary and agricultural society.

[Ataturkistan]

At the start I thought he wanted to replicate a alien voice to make this more fascinating. lol

[ZebZachary]

while i find the Gobekli Tepe site utterly fascinating,

and i respect Mr. Schmidt's research and the fact that he's been there

from the beginning, it seems that he is doing an awful lot of speculating

about the people who built it. i mean, he's been there for 15 or 16 years and

it just seems like he still doesn't really have very many answers.

[cabbar666]

Could it be possible that these people belonged to a category between hunter-gatherer and agricultural society? We know that there was an abundance of wild "einkorn" wheat in the region, which allowed the support of a "surplus" population to build these while not necessarily abandoning conventional hunting&gathering?

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@cabbar666 I think what makes places like Gobekli important are that they remind us that we really don’t know what we don’t know. Even when looking into the evolutionary process of our species we find many more off shoots and dead ends than most expected. Given variables like geographic location and human ingenuity, I see no reason not to remain open to the same kinds of possibilities concerning societal development.

[occultologist]

these structures were the work of civilized men, of that i am absolutely and unequivocally certain. imagine, a civilization predating the egyptians by nine centures. fascinating.

[occultologist]

ha, and all without sophisticated tools and writing, preposterous. just because evidence of agriculture hasn't been found, doesn't mean they didn't have any, it just means you haven't found it yet. it's fun to watch these conservative scientists jump through rational and empirical hoops in order to desperately and dogmatically maintain their obsolescent paradigm.

[occultologist]

this man wants us to believe that cave men could build temples. i read that 500 men would have been required to construct these... monuments, or whatever they were. 500 men! how could hunter gatherers, who can barely support themselves and their children, support a workforce of 500 men, who don't catch their own dinner, but instead, devout their entire lives to stone masonry and geometry. you would need to devout your entire life in order to accomplish this magnificient archetectural feat.

[faron27]

just more proof that evolution is a lie!

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 Well, this place was created thousands and thousands of years before the Old Testament was even written, so no, it doesn’t prove anything like that, if anything it proves the opposite.

As to whether or not various creation myths may contain some trace of traditional memories of such places is, at this point, only speculation but fascinating.

[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil i disagree with you completely try 15 to 20 thousand years ago and take a look at evolutions time line, humans did not have the technology needed to build this type of structure let alone quarry, cut and sculpt the stone even today it would take all we know to build this... and who said anything about Old Testament i think you have me confused sir!

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 GT dates to about 11 hundred years ago. Still a long time, but they were fully modern humans from an evolutionary standpoint. Those people worked stone and moved heavy loads for a living. I have no doubt they would be able to teach us a thing or two about it. I think they were every bit as intelligent, in their way, as we are today, and they must have worked very hard to create something that they believed in. Unless someone can prove otherwise, it’s unfair to take that away from them.

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 Thousand! I meant 11 thousand years ago...

[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil try again much older than that!

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 Try what again? According to archeologists and this video, it's about 11.500 years old. Are you saying they're wrong?

[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil yes 

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 Explain?



[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil history is written by the victorious, just as our own human history has been hidden so is the age and finds of this site and it's contents ... but believe what you want! (i know i do)

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 I don’t believe what I want, I believe what they say because, without proof to the contrary, why wouldn’t I? Have you studied the sight yourself or have access to some evidence that would prove they’re wrong? Otherwise you’re the one believing what you want, for no other reason then that’s what you want to believe. So here I am with open ears. What do you know that the rest of us don’t? Are you talking about the Anunnaki or something? I know all about that stuff too.

[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil yes the site is 15 to 20 thousand years old or older, do you think this video is recent?

are you in contact with people on the site? and yes i also believe what i want... once i have formed an opinion based on facts. and far as Anunnaki they are not real and they have nothing to do with this site.

you should read The Hidden History of The Human Race then you will understand my answer and why i believe what i do.

[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil I know with out a shadow of a doubt the site is older than 11thousand years old.

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

@faron27 Yeah yeah, you keep saying that; now tell us why. Prove it. Put your money where your mouth is. If you can, I'll be the first in line to back you up.

[faron27]

@Blackboilingrobotoil WHAT? you want what anyone could find on the web here

newsweek.com/2010/02/18/histor­y-in-the-remaking.html

this article was back in 2010, do u realize they have been working on this site for 20 over years? It had already been noted in an American survey in 1964, there's a bunch more information than that out there just with a simple google search. i won't bother to prove my point anymore u r brain washed!

[WhItEbOy62306]

ed leedskalnin used magnets to build coral castle... he magnetized the coral to move it and sculpt it... read up on him,,, he said he figured out how the pyrimids were built and how all the big monoliths were built and moved... just a suggestion to maybe make ppl think about that too

[Asoingles2007]

Hunter-gatherers can't construct temples with 50 ton stones. They had technology that we know nothing about today.

[GSRJosh33]

@Asoingles2007 We know about it its just not shared. Ed Leedskalnin used it to create Coral Castle.

[trespire]

@Asoingles2007 Maybe they hunted and gathered big herds of stones !! Maybe not :-)

[lovosazul]

So he (Klauss Schmidt) did't explain how they moved those very large and heavy megalithic stones when built!?

[diablos20091]

I belive this was made by someone or something that had advanced technology that has been lost in time. How could humans of that age build something like that. We would struggle to do that today in my opinion. What a load of crap thay couldnt move 50 ton stones using ropes and wooden beams why do people belive this crap. Hunter gatheres could not build and carve this in my opinion.

[108morris108]

@diablos20091

What about Baalbek, with a single hewn stone weighing over a 1,000 tons, having already been moved out of the quarry?

[diablos20091]

@108morris108 Its all very strange how do you think such a massive stone was moved. I for one dont belive the official answer do you?

[108morris108]

@diablos20091

I am not aware of any official answers.

But there are historical accounts of levitation - created by people singing - often these accounts seem to be by valleys and mountains, perhaps there is a kind of echo effect.

On a smaller scale there is a stone levitated everyday by Sufis near Puna in India -(a 90 kilo stone by their finger tips). There are accounts of Giants in history, and Easter Island & The Obelisk in Egypt. We generally cannot function in a group independently anymore

[abarrathemaster]

@diablos20091 my son can darw images more realsic than what is found in Gobekli Tepe. the saite look to be made by a ancient cuture not a modon advance cuture.

[Valliant2007]

@abarrathemaster no though its more modern and advanced than what we are led to believe during these times no?