Before Göbekli Tepe | Boncuklu Tarla | Exclusive Site Exploration & Museum Visit | Megalithomania

Explore Ancient Turkiye in May 2025, including Göbekli Tepe, Derinkuyu, Karahan Tepe, Çatalhöyük and more. Get a $200 discount for a limited time: www.megalithom.... On the upper reaches of the Tigris river in Turkey are several archaeological sites that predate Göbekli Tepe including one that could be up to 13,000 years old. This is Boncuklu Tarla (Beaded Field), where excavations have revealed 30 residential houses, 6 public structures and the skeletons of 130 individuals. More than 100,000 beads, and shaped raw copper have been unearthed (also found at nearby Gre Filla Höyük). Much of this is on display at Mardin Museum which is investigated in this video. The square enclosures at the site are up to 30 feet wide and contain standing stones about 5 feet tall, some of the earliest megaliths on the planet. Notably, one enclosure has a holed stone in its wall, just like we find at Karahan Tepe and Göbekli Tepe. Could this be evidence of very early astronomical observations? Boncuklu Tarla, like many of the earliest sites in Turkey, was buried beneath a mound with finds dating from nearly 13,000 to 9,000 years old (Epipaleolithic period through to the Late pre-pottery Neolithic B). Read more in Hugh's new book: amzn.to/3Mr6hmp
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[@MegalithomaniaUK]

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[@dreddykrugernew]

37°26'57"N 37°59'34"E It doesnt look like its a landslide it just looks like a mound, the way the road goes around it and its proximity to the river, I know Turkey is a big place but if youre nearby on a venture it might be worth a look. Going east from there it looks like an ancient road, maybe Roman.

[@dreddykrugernew]

Artifact number 12 06:00 im guessing thats a drill, watching that channel where that guy makes stuff using ancient techniques, that looks a similar thing to spin a bellow to help fire a furnace. The 2 ends of the rope are pulled out to the side once they have been coiled up around it to get it spinning, the momentum on the first pull twists the rope back around the wood to allow for it to be continually spun back and forth. The Sabu Disc, I cant help but think thats part of some sort of drilling contraption similar to the 2 rope one, maybe it was 3 ropes with 3 people giving it big pulls to spin it faster and more powerful spins.

[@jesus4400]

Those stone walls and pillars are actually concrete that has been eroded and altered by meteorology. Only the biblical worldview that includes the flood, which took place 4,400 years ago, allows you to understand all these ancient constructions.

[@jesus4400]

Those stone walls and pillars are actually eroded and metamorphically altered concrete. Only the biblical worldview that includes the flood, which took place 4,400 years ago, allows you to understand all these ancient constructions.

[@BnaBreaker]

I have massive respect and gratitude for the workaday archaeologists who quite literally do the dirty work of bringing these remarkable sites to the forefront for humanity. We would have no knowledge of places like this if it weren't for them. I'm so sick of the disrespect the archaeology community gets in so-called 'alternative history' circles, who love to sit behind their computer and drag archaeologists through the mud just because they have an actual job to do that requires very specific protocols and won't jump to conclusions and tell them everything was made by advanced aliens or whatever the hell they're after. These people deserve our respect and admiration, as do you, Hugh. Thank you for all YOU do to bring these largely unknown sites to light! Cheers mate!

[@Nylon_riot]

I have read conspiracy theories since the beginning of the internet. It used to be a very niche and dedicated group. They also used to be socially ostracized. Just like everything else, it exploded with social media. I am sill not surehow society became so tolerant of it. Maybe interest exploded when archeology leapt forward. Because this amount of information wasn't easily available or dispersed. But I agree, this is getting on my nerves. I even wrote a paper on this in college, how aliens have become the new gods. They are omnipotent, live in the dark, scary, and inaccessible heavens, and are judgy.

[@fennynough6962]

Impressive, the working of these precious stones & jewelry. Time has not changed the desire for the beautification of the individual!

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Yes, you are right

[@Materialworld4]

Thank you for todays video, and all your other wonderful videos. The necklaces and other carved votive figures were beautiful, and amazing, especially given their age.

[@clifforddaniels1317]

You are the man Hugh

[@sethirving8356]

The green stone is a handle to a weapon long gone. Turn it 90 clockwise and imagine your pinky finger in the back groove. A cord runs through and along the groove secured to the piece. In the strapping, include a serpent head and linkage to a buckle. It was a base to a ceremonial dagger. Awesome. Thank you guys for showing stuff no one ever bothers to show!

[@taddallman-morton6796]

It looked too small to me. 3 inches at most-small handle!

[@darrendempsey3190]

I’ll never get to these places but you take me there! Thank you for what you do, I mean it!

[@virginiaallisonpeck2517]

Thanks you guys just keep teaching me more and more about ancient history. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.❤

[@DREWSLENS]

Thanks for bringing us to this place man. The ancients will appreciate your efforts. 🙏

[@GlenLake]

Thank you for documenting this and then sharing it with us. I really appreciate your work and effort.

[@davidlancaster8152]

Wow. Would be great to see more of this site and the museum. Thanks Hugh and crew.

[@jeffreychandler8666]

Simply marvelous, the discoveries going on in Turkey!

[@bob_btw6751]

Thx Hugh, you helped make my day by showing us things about humanity so long ago. In your own special way you are an historical journalist.

[@jimmime]

Thank you, Hugh.

[@claudettedelphis6476]

Thank you for your fabulous video and information. It is greatly appreciated 🌷

[@comfortablynumb9342]

This is the first time I've heard of that place. It would be interesting to see a map of all those sites that are close to each other. It appears that there was a civilization there, not a bunch of hunter gatherers that decided to randomly build stuff.

[@patstats1]

You can find the sites on Google maps. Locate Sanliurfa first. Search for ‘ancient sites.’

[@Antique803]

Excellent!

[@lindasue8719]

5:11 what I assume is a pendant, looks to me completely like a stylized female form. Great video, thanks for sharing what you've seen there ❤

[@OldWorldNY]

Thank you for the upload!

[@jamesn.economou9922]

Good video Hugh! I love the artifacts here. thanks

[@chrisstanley2538]

Excellent video Hugh

[@baxtronicxavier]

“Hello megalithimaniacs” hahah. I do really like your enthusiasm, it’s very cool, especially as you’re so very English (like me). And you’ve definitely got the music!

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Thank you! 😃

[@scandalouslando204]

Bro, love your content. So cool, informative, and entertaining. Appreciate yall.

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@oker59]

"and still it moves" - Galileo while in house arrest

[@ghostrider369]

Altamura man was found in southern Italy and is 130,000 yrs old. I'm sure there'll be more stuff to find that's been buried.

[@emrysmcwryn7902]

In California, excavations for a road unearthed 150,000 year old bones with marks made by butchery using a knife. No other animal uses knives.

[@TimDavies1955]

But don’t build towns

[@mrbaab5932]

​@@emrysmcwryn7902 Others of the Homo group used tools like Neanderthals and Erectus.

[@ghostrider369]

@@emrysmcwryn7902 who made knives 150,000 yrs ago??

[@Lotusum2064]

I'm sure yours are older than the ones of the turkiye😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jessegreywolf]

Stunning!

[@anniesnowriversea]

Stunning

[@ryryhydrogeo9239]

🤯 it keeps getting older...omg!

[@SinanWP]

thanks for the video so much man power needed to discover mysteries of anatolia sooooo much

[@scottnixon9367]

Awesome. The dates keep moving further back in time. Pretty soon it will be 20,000 B.C.E.

[@eidrith493]

The items are far more sophisticated and beautiful than anything at Gobekli Tepe and they could have been two different cultures which influenced each other. Just my opinion.

[@baby-turtle]

Every item in a museum could be considered an out of place artifact... OOPART 🤔 Would be nice to see larger museum displays in place... Or at least if all the stuff from one site was kept in one place...

[@muddywitch9016]

Any ideas what the site might have been used as/for yet?

[@Baryshx]

This is a classical settlement, not a temple site like Göbekli Tepe.

[@nukhetyavuz]

mother goddess anatolia♥️🧿🌎

[@dougg1075]

Forever ago as far as the human mind can deal with. Amazing

[@secularsunshine9036]

*Let the Sunshine In...*

[@paulcoverdale8312]

So a early jewellery hub on the Silk route?❤❤❤❤🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

Neftu right?

[@dcspangler8025]

Once upon a time, this was a green "eden.' Sad to see the modern desertified landscape.

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

Very god morning from germany❤

[@thetruenolan6655]

The small stone figurine at 5:15 looks remarkably like some of the small figurines from the Hongshan culture of Neolithic China.

[@yunusakyuz5372]

Yapraklı Tarla.

[@eyemallears2647]

Great video thanks - but then at the very end you advertise a book about the annunaki…. Ugh.

[@MrPenguln]

Looks like ancient high technology! Looks like its right after the flood, the survivors of Atlantis started to introduce tech to the local natives.

[@MB-oc1nw]

Cobbled walls - high technology 😂

[@sharronarturi7958]

Wow, ❤❤❤thank you for this video🎉

[@williamolivadoti3867]

1:08 looks like 8 of 9 planets with sizes and distances close

[@mikecheck8616]

Thanks!

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

Thank you!!!

[@nukhetyavuz]

btw you say boncuklu the first way u pronounced it

[@williamolivadoti3867]

1:35 any DNA from those burials?

[@Baryshx]

Mostly G2a, a few T's, K's and J's.

[@Brainsteve]

Vore mycket tacksam om ni kan namn ge de ursprungliga namn på städerna. Urfa stämmer och är en uråldrig kurdisk stad ..tack

[@paulcoverdale8312]

You luv sayin that name😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@vaunmalone3064]

When will they test for DNA of the people?

[@Baryshx]

Mostly G2a, a few T's and J's.

[@thundercatt5265]

Modern man,existed before the great flood then was replaced with Noah and Sumer and Root of modern cultures pre-tower of Babel,after the great flood 12,000 years ago, the beads looks like the remnants of modern man who existed during the days of the kings list of ATLANTIS or Noah's prototype in the evolutionary process of Civilized man , the 13,000 year marker seems to fit in place perfectly

[@jussikankinen9409]

Lions, huge bears and wolfes in turkey

[@NeptunesLagoon]

Tas Tepelier is the oldest known empire on earth 🌍 those amazing caucasians… 😮

[@mindseyeproductions8798]

5:20 not a creature, looks very much like a simplified pregnant woman carving.

[@rudilambert1065]

Perhaps it was the younger dryas itself that forced them to use agriculture

[@Brainsteve]

Tack för att ni studerar kurdish historia... vi är bundna med våran dna kultur och ett hissnande historia... de finns 70 miljoner med kurder och mer idag... tack ....selaw 😊

[@kitty_cat1999]

With respect ... At that time there were no Kurdish and other types of distinctions. These are just people. We don't know what language they spoke, exactly what religion they had and etc...

[@Brainsteve]

De är en väldigt kort tid i människans historia... jag är med absolut fakta och vetenskapligt rätt..... selaw from Kurdistan the land of medes hurians land of KURD

[@Brainsteve]

Kurdiska språket är aremeiska den är delad i två grenar...den andra är hebreiska.... Kurdiska språket är många tusen år gammal.... bli gärna inspirerat och studera...... den första kyrkan byggdes i Kurdistan..... De tre vise männen var kurder.... salahadin kurd.... vi har så klart ett av världens bästa krigare och glass.. maten är nog den bästa.... selaw from Kurdistan

[@porkmilk8984]

End the teaser at the beginning. Its a hold over from the dying television style with loooong ads. Start, you vid and get right to the flipping point.

[@philipthomas3938]

This area is a dried out husk of it's previous verdant garden of Eden Paradise level... mushroom 🍄 imbibing aesthetics of earthly beauty before the ugly prison city states took control of people's minds...

[@rtk3543]

Hunter gatherers are not necessarily nomadic, I think programmes like this give the misleading impression that people who live in settlements are farmers and not hunter gatherers, this is not the case. Even in modern society we still hunt and gather. People stopped being 'nomadic' and built permanent settlements that's the real distinction.

[@Rocchio753]

They found evidence of early agricultural practices on the site too

[@Baryshx]

This is a classical settlement, not a temple site like Göbekli epe.

[@JohnDelong-qm9iv]

See Genesis for details

[@Sherry-v2r]

There was religion, wonder if religion is evolving so that eventually we will find out what it's all about. Is the need to worship innate? That is my question. Religion is a mystery, why is that with us? It is a great divider of humanity.

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

The black Granit Lion women Look Like a Krokodile orna lion

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

The lion men was l found in Germany Neuwied near a south Park .. ❤Episode ..with Out Satanismus only direkt Line ❤

[@patrickmcdonough5311]

Hippo godesbwith Lion teath .. Krokodile head..may be ... A. .. Lion of Juda T ele fangelisten

[@NaimaG12]

It amazes me..that we are still amazed that modern society isn’t the most advanced. Kinda arrogant 😂lol

[@lindajesse8250]

Special permission. Bull.

[@MegalithomaniaUK]

???

[@MixedRaceAndProud1690]

@lindajesse8250 - why do you say that ??

[@myview1875]

Fascinating stuff but as a conspiracy theorist 😀I have to question everything. 🤔. Those structures date to 13,000 years old which in my mind is a drop in the ocean to how long humans have been around according to the mainstream. 🤔. My theory is that an Alien spaceship landed on this earth about 15,000 years ago and put all life including the plants in their finished form on this plane, and in twos so abling population. 🙂. In a nut shell Noahs Ark in reverse. 😀.