In 9,600 BC Someone Built a Temple With 50-Ton Stones — Then Buried It on Purpose

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What kind of people could carve 50-ton stones, raise them into a
stone circle, cover them in fierce animals and abstract symbols…
and then bury the whole thing on purpose?





In this Sleepy Time History deep dive, we drift back to 9,600 BC
and explore Göbekli Tepe, the mysterious hill in southeastern
Turkey that turned out to be the world’s oldest known temple
complex. From Klaus Schmidt’s 1994 discovery to the towering
T-shaped pillars, we walk through the enclosures, the animal
carvings in high relief, and the eerie, almost absent human
figures.





You’ll hear how mobile hunter-gatherers may have quarried and
moved these megaliths, why some archaeologists think ritual came
before farming, and what the careful backfilling of the site
might really mean. We’ll look at Pillar 43, Pillar 33, the “net
of snakes,” and why some see star maps and Younger Dryas clues in
the stone.





If you enjoy relaxing, curiosity-driven history about ancient
civilizations, archaeology, and unsolved mysteries, this video is
for you.





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Chapters:


00:00 Klaus schmidt’s first look


07:05 The world of 9,600 BC


17:36 From mistaken hill to excavation


27:00 Layer III and the first great circles


39:42 The central pair


48:19 Stone cut from the hill


57:06 Animals in high relief


1:05:03 Humans, absences, and strange figures


1:15:47 Pillar 43 and the sky debate


1:26:09 Pillar 33 and the net of snakes


1:34:15 Moving a 50-ton stone


1:42:36 Did ritual come before farming?


1:50:53 Layer II and the later phase


1:58:34 The careful burial


2:08:02 Karahan tepe and the stone hills


2:16:28 What we know and what we don’t


2:28:16 Leaving the hill in silence





Sources:


- Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia
(2012) — Klaus Schmidt


- “Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey: A Preliminary Report on the
1995–1999 Excavations” — Klaus Schmidt


- “The Role of Cult and Feasting in the Emergence of Neolithic
Communities: New Evidence from Göbekli Tepe, South-Eastern
Turkey” — Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, et al.


- Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods (2017) — Andrew M. Collins


- “A Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: A Cometary Encounter as a
Possible Cause of the Younger Dryas” — P. I. Sweatman and D.
Tsikritsis





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