Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-Year-Old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development.

[Mr. McD]

Compared to Stonehenge, Britain’s most famous prehistoric site, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.

Never mind circular patterns or the stone-etchings, the people who erected this site did not even have pottery or cultivate wheat. They lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers.


"Look at this", he says, pointing at a photo of an exquisitely carved sculpture showing an animal, half-human, half-lion. "It’s a sphinx, thousands of years before Egypt. Southeastern Turkey, northern Syria - this region saw the wedding night of our civilization."

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041708a.shtml

[Benhurst]

1. A good find.

Thanks, Mr. MCD.

Recommended #2 :kick:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. not to mention pissing off a bunch of flat-earther bible beaters.

which is never a bad thing.

[Lithos]

3. Very, very cool

The sphinx "find" only adds to her mystery even more.

L-

[chknltl]

4. The ghost of Heinrich Schliemann is likely impressed!

Well at least I hope so. He stomped around Anatolia, found Troy and found 'the treasure of Priam' back in the mid-nineteenth century. Fascinating developments going on there these days.

[nichomachus]

5. I love this temple carving from Egypt -- it's real

Note the helicopter (upper left), watercraft (upper right), what appears to be a submersible, and some other kind of flying craft. No one can explain this. One of them could be a coincidence, but to have all of them on the same panel is just very strange.

[Codeine]

6. Actually, it's easily explained.

http://members.tripod.com/~A_U_R_A/abydos.html

[Nihil]

7. Maybe not ...

Lots of people can explain this and none of them have to revert to
the option of "helicopter" or "submarine".

The thing that really p*sses me off about such wannabe Egyptologists
is that there are plenty of genuinely "awkward to explain" images
but they focus on the photoshopped bits instead ...

FWIW, there are more than enough things in the Egyptian environment
to keep genuine thinkers occupied but the challenge is to get past
the recurring fake crap that keeps popping up on the net ...
:think:

[DCKit]

8. Is that the pilot on the far left?

Damn Goa'uld.

[enlightenment]

9. A little more, with pictures -

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14968

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2880,features,gobekli-your-questions-answered