Karahan Tepe: The Remarkable Companion To Göbekli Tepe
At around 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe is the world’s oldest megalithic site – and it has a lesser-known “sister site” called Karahan Tepe. Turkey is hailing the discovery of an 11,400-year-old monumental site as one of the world’s oldest villages, challenging the prevailing science on when and why humankind first settled down. Karahan Tepe, […]
Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe
The word “tepe” means hill or summit in Turkish and refers to both sites that are located around the rocky Tektek Mountains. Turkey has been in the forefront of research into the origins of farming and animal husbandry for several generations, starting with the discovery and excavation of Çatalhöyük. Then followed the dig at Göbekli […]
Göbekli Tepe celestial connections
There are two major claims that Göbekli Tepe had celestial connections point to. One suggests that the site was aligned with the night sky, particularly the star Sirius, because the local people worshiped the star like other cultures in the region did thousands of years later. Another claims that carvings at Göbekli Tepe record a […]
Göbekli Tepe symbolism and cometary encounter events
Göbekli Tepe symbolism correlates astronomical facts to support the Younger Dryas cometary event catastrophism. Göbekli Tepe is often referred as ‘the world’s first temple’. It is an ancient megalithic site in present-day southern Turkey, not far from the border with Syria. The archeologist Klaus Schmidt has let the excavations over the last two decades and […]
Göbekli Tepe evidence of ancient cataclysm
A team of researchers with the University of Edinburgh has found what they describe as evidence of a comet striking the Earth at approximately the same time as the onset of the Younger Dryas in carvings on an ancient stone pillar of Göbekli Tepe. The findings were published in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. […]
Göbekli Tepe astronomical events and symbolism
Researchers are matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to find compelling evidence that the ‘Vulture Stone’ is a date stamp for 10950 BC which closely corresponds to the proposed Younger Dryas event, estimated at 10890 BC. Researchers also found evidence that a key function of Göbekli Tepe was to observe […]
Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe
The 12,000-year-old prehistoric sites of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe are the new centers of attention and rightly so! The most recently discovered and lesser known “sister site” Karahan Tepe is quickly receiving higher levels of attention. Located just over 45 kilometers (27 miles) east of Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe was first discovered in 1997, […]
