Ancient Site Finally Makes News(week)

2/21/2010

Newsweek has a nice article on the Gobekli Tepe site in Turkey, the ancient temple complex whose discovery was announced last year. The impressive stone temple site dates back 11,500 years, making it the oldest known human ceremonial center--6,000 years older than Stonehenge.

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Brian McLaughlin

10/29/2013 04:43:00 pm

I stumble upon your website while researching the characters who appear on the History Channel program Ancient Aliens. I've spent a while reading some of your posts and enjoyed them.

I need to point out that I started watching Ancient Aliens as entertainment because I had so much fun refuting their commentary with my very limited knowledge of archaeology and ancient history. I do have a fascination with ancient history and even some of the "mysteries" of the ancient world. I find myself wishing that the History Channel would have alternate programing consistent of actual science, I think it would be at least as interesting.

I first heard of Gobekli Tepe when I read the novel The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox and researched the site and found the Smithsonian article you mention in a recent post on Angels Driving UFOs. I find the real questions about this site fascinating and the novel's suggestion of the connection to this site to the biblical Garden of Eden story thought provoking and void of any need for ancient aliens!

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