Breakthrough Discovery: Karahan Tepe in Turkey is regarded as the oldest ancient civilization site on Earth.

Researchers in Turkey have embarked on an excavation at the ancient site of Karahan Tepe and they believe it’s much older than Göbekli Tepe, the famous “zero point of world history.” Until now, like yesterday, if you were to ask any professor of history or even a self-respecting armchair archaeologist to name the oldest monument ever discovered, they would all have said Göbekli Tepe. But now, that answer might be Karahan Tepe, and this is creating a lot of excitement in the archeological world.

MOST IMPORTANT ARCHEOLOGICAL FIND IN MODERN HISTORY.
Karahan Tepe is currently under excavation and what is coming out of the ground is set to rewrite history. This is a very strange site in the Tektek Mountains southeast of Şanlıurfa in Turkey and is the sister site of Göbekli Tepe. It dates to at least 11,000 years old and the evidence now confirms it was part of a sophisticated supercivilization in Southeast Anatolia, probably created by the Watchers of 'The Book of Enoch' or the Anunnaki of Sumerian tradition.

A Winter Solstice alignment has been discovered and further insights into the importance of this site are revealed.  More sites are being excavated right now in the area in a zone called 'Tas Tepeler,' meaning 'Stone Hills', and covers an area of 124 miles in width. The site will be opening to visitors by the summer of 2022 to visit the most important archaeological discovery of the 21st Century.

This site being discovered and the facts that lye waiting is the most exciting thing happening right now. We're literally a species with amnesia when it comes to our creation story. With this incredible site being the oldest civilization found on the planet BY FAR! We may figure out some of these questions we've been asking ourselves for too long. And one more thing that makes this incredibly mysterious.....It was all buried deliberately. WHY? HOW?

Stunning carvings of human figures and heads have been uncovered at what is considered to be one of the most important settlements of the Neolithic period. The discovery at Karahan Tepe, in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, reveals the artistic skills of people who lived there 11,000 years ago. So far more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions have been found, along with a number of three-dimensional human sculptures.

The smartest minds on our planet tell us people in that time period were simple hunter and gatherers. People who shouldn't be skilled enough to be able to construct these massive stone monuments.  This quote from a blogger "The more and more we discover the more freaked out I get- And I love it."

Situated in southern Turkey near the upper Euphrates, Karahan Tepe has become famous for its surprisingly advanced megalithic architecture and symbolism, seemingly too early for the hunter-gather culture that built it. How, and more interestingly why, did its builders make such magnificent structures at such an early time? Something utterly dramatic must have happened to motivate them. This mystery has attracted many to try and interpret the symbols that cover its megalithic pillars. Archaeoastronomy likely holds the key. Considering that Karahan Tepe sits at the threshold of the origin of civilization - anything one can learn about this issue is profoundly important.

Turkey’s temple mounds illuminate the birth of civilization

The finds at Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe have upended conventional wisdom.

Even as a boy, Ismail Can, a Turkish shepherd, knew that the large mound outside his village, known as Karahan Tepe, contained wonders. Flint fragments, once used as tools, littered the mountainous area (about an hour’s drive from Sanliurfa, a city in southern Turkey). Large slabs of limestone, clearly hewed and shaped by human hands, emerged from the earth.

Mounds like Karahan Tepe had been largely ignored until the 1990s, when Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist, began excavating a similar site about 50km to the west. That mound, known as Gobekli Tepe, or Potbelly Hill, was previously assumed to be a Byzantine graveyard. It turned out to be a monumental complex, adorned with reliefs of animals and containing scores of giant T-shaped monoliths. Arranged in circles, like people huddled around a fire, the monoliths are thought to represent humans or human-like gods. Carbon dating revealed that the site preceded the Byzantines by some 10,000 years and Stonehenge by 6,000. Gobekli Tepe has since shot to fame as the world’s oldest temple civilization until the recent discovery of Karahan Tepe-now regarded as the oldest civilization on earth.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Around 12,000 years ago, humans hunkered down. Though they had previously traversed the planet to forage for food, people made the decision to devote themselves to agriculture and spent their days planting seeds, picking produce and amassing the world’s first food surpluses.

The region is gearing itself up “to compete with the Egyptian pyramids” according to local officials. Gobekli Tepe is already open to the public, Karahan Tepe will open in 2022, and it is expected that other sites will also begin to welcome visitors when excavations are complete.

Ultimately, the security provided by abundant food allowed portions of the human population to concentrate on converting small, agrarian settlements into vibrant cities. They could construct towering temples and palaces and throw themselves into the burgeoning endeavors of art, philosophy and politics. Eight distinct civilizations emerged in the ancient world: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Maya, India, China, Rome, Greece, Persia, and now add Turkey.

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