[Palter]

Gobekli Tepe ping.

[HospiceNurse]

The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago Impossible. The earth wasn't created yet.

[Jewbacca]

Fascinating.

[tumblindice]

No Helen Thomas photos.
Thank you very much.

[anonsquared]

This guys conclusions are a stretch. This complex could just as easily be the site of the first human swap meet.

[The Comedian]

Eldritch horrors ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[dead]

The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape.

Serious question:

How do they know the temple was built 11,500 years ago?

I know about carbon dating and such, but that just tells you how old the rock is, not when somebody built something with it.

[Mariner]

Fascinating.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1173106/posts?page=1064#1064

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Palter. Thanks go to cajuncow for sending a link to an online article about Göbekli Tepe. I suspect there will be a rash of articles at various news sources, and another spate of FR topics about it. AFAIK, these are all of them so far, chrono order: Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth Layers of clustered apartments hide artifacts of ancient urban life German Paper Reports World's Oldest Temple Is In Sanliurfa (Turkey- 10,000BC) Did we plough up the Garden of Eden? Is this the world's oldest statue? [Anatolia, Göbekli Tepe] A Journey To 9,000 Years Ago (Çatalhöyük) Turkish Site A Neolithic 'Supernova' Mysterious Neolithic People Made Optical Art Göbekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? ( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old ) Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden? Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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