Sunday, June 17, 2012

12,000 year old civilization

Gobekli Tepe


Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization

By Andrew Curry
Photographs by Berthold Steinhilber
Smithsonian magazine, November 2008, Subscribe



12,000 years I think is still a drop in the bucket but I am glad that someone with good skills and rep is doing the excavations in Turkey.



Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html#ixzz1y6QwAKZQ

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