Göbekli Tepe - The First Temple On Earth? 10,000 BC // Ancient History Documentary

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- - Göbekli Tepe - The First Temple On Earth? - -
11:07 - I - Discovery
35:09 - II - Before Eden
54:40 - III - In the Prehistoric Zoo
1:15:42- IV - After The Ice
1:37:14 - V - Feasting At The Dawn
2:14:36 - VI - The Birth Of The Gods?
- - Bibliography - -
- Books -
Klaus Schmidt, Gobekli Tepe (2012)
Steven Mithen , After The Ice (2003)
V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself (1939)
Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution (2014)
Robin Dunbar, How Religion Evolved (2022)
David Wengrow & David Graeber, The Dawn of everything (2021)
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas (1988)
Mircea Eliade, Shamanism (1951)
Jaques Cauvin, The Birth Of The Gods & The Dawn of Agriculture (1994)
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)
Claude Levi Strauss, The Savage Mind (1966)
Dancing at the Dawn, Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
Brian Hayden, The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory To The Present (2014)
Dacher Keltner, Awe - The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder (2023)
- Academic Journals -
The Archaeology of Ritual, Edward Swenson (2015)
Becoming Farmers: The Inside Story, Anna Belfer-Cohen (2011)
The Earliest Dancing Scenes In The Near East - Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
On Scorpions, Birds & Snakes - Benz & Bauer (2015)
Farewell to the ‘Childhood of Man’ - Wengrow & Graeber (2015)
So Fair A House, Göbekli Tepe - E. B. Banning (2011)
Göbekli Tepe Preliminary Report, Klaus Schmidt (2000)
Gods & Monsters - David Wengrow (2011)
Jaques Cauvin: The right man for the reason - Anna Belfer Cohen (2011)
The Legacy of Jaques Cauvin, Melinda Zeder (2011)
Klaus Schmidt, Hans Georg K Gebel (2014)
The Natufians In The Levant, Anna Belfer-Cohen (1991)
To be not to be, Olivier Aurenche (2013)
The Neolithic Transformation, Willie Thompson
The Origins of Agriculture, Price & Bar-Yousef (2011)
Rational Choice In The Neolithic?, Kim Sterelny (2015)
The Origins of Agriculture In The Near East, Melinda Zeder (2011)
On The Nature of Transitions and Revolutions in Prehistory, Ofer Bar-Yosef (2005)
The World’s First Temple, Sandra Scham (2008)
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I was in highschool in the mid-late 2010s and tot once was Gobekli Tepe even mentioned, I only found out about it on the internet.

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He mentions monoliths being moved without animal power being prior to domestication.But elephants are wild & used as beasts of burden. Dogs, as camp followers at least, may have been corralled into helping, too. Thoughts?

[@SunRabbit]

Laird Scranton believes that the people who built Gobekli Tepe were in contact with the pre-dynastic Egyptians, and says that "Get Petkai" means "Gobekli Tepe" in Egyptian. Is there any veracity to this connection?

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I am From Şanlıurfa City where the Göbeklitepe in it. Salute from Turkey to all editors

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[@estheroz7119]

this video is missing so much information. First of all, in the beginning, he should've mentioned that it was found in Turkey. and there was no single mention of Turkish archeologists. Second, "Gobeki Tepe " it's not a temple. Third, It shows at least 12 thousand years of human existence, not 10 thousand. Fourth, the head was stolen by German archeologists, then they just paid some amount of money back to Turkey in return.

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Schmidt; “Had no choice but to dedicate the rest of his life on the dig.” Although tragically cut short, I can only imagine that Klaus felt his life had such great purpose and significance. What a gift to receive - to be spellbound by such a colossal undertaking. RIP Klaus, your sharp eye and tenacity continues to change our understanding of humanity.

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I hear ya! I've been completely hooked on these ancient sites. Have you seen the BAM documentary about the unbelievable connections between these sites?

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Visited Gobeklitepe twice and each time I have goosebumps

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It's really sad too. imagine you being one of the ancient people who was there and had experiences. You felt happiness, love from your parents and had experiences both good and bad. And then life goes on, more than a thousand years from now, no one remembers what you had or what you went through. Imagine europe and the united states and all other countries like that. No one knows that the US or europe or africa was ever like that. Or that we had such fun and stuff.

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Thank you so much for what you do!❤ Also, a big heap of gratitude for covering Gobekli Tepe. This video is awesome.

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There is no ancient Turkey 😂 Turks are nomads from the stepes of central Asia first time they went in Asia Minor is before 1000 years. You can talk for ancient Anatolia or ancient Asia Minor but not ancient Turkey 😂

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@rogersterk3968 kurds are iranians , they should go back to iran and stay there

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well researched, sure, when he blatantly put the date at 10,000 BC when it is actually 11,000 BC,

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22:00 That is awesome! I have always heard the story that - for some 'unknown' reason, despite only insignificant references to Gobekli Tepe, Schmidt decided to go to the site. Now I understand better.

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Really? Because I find the guy pompous and condescending just a few minutes into this. I can't help paying special attention to what relates directly to the FACT that this monument wasn't supposed to exist. The historians and archeologist where wrong about the history of permanent settlement, technology, cataclysms, and agriculture. I have seen what clever people can do today- and we have not got any smarter for 350.000 years. We did lose our fur though. Unmatched marathon trekkers. We can eat nearly anything. Even each other. That's how our species conquered this world becoming the top predator. Sweat glands. Not intelligence. We can escape cataclysm in replacement numbers, and we have. The human genome project found several bottlenecks in our shared genetic history. This video is basicly just about trying to claim anything big or old must be religious in nature, and that the population that built major infrastructure wasn't even agrarian yet. Witch is just fucking stupid. Honestly.. At a certain point it's less face lost by academia by admitting they where wildly off on the history of technology. People forget. Being wrong like that isn't trivial. It's akin to saying the roman empire at it's hight was a stack of mud huts reinforced with straw and human feces where they had no knowledge of proper hygiene. Then excavating a roman bath claiming it's clearly a temple to some forgotten god. I mean.. Common!

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Hands down the best narrator out there. Paul Cooper a close second.

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I feel sad that you believe this is thoughrly researched , this term golpetepee is a new term , did you know the ancestral people of these lands that were not Turks but Armenians , assyrians and Greeks this land mark is known as PORTASAR. help the indigenous people from Cultural Genocide

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@@raffis15 what is the name of your documentary and your KZbin channel????

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This might just be your best documentary yet. I have always been fascinated with the epipaleolithic and the neolithic, so seeing that you have made a 3 hour long video about it is an absolute joy. Insanely great work, Pete!

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the really sad part is that 95-98% of our history is almost permanently gone. we didn't start keeping physical records of our presence until the last 6-7000yrs ago.

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@@sunny-sq6ci And that's only certain civilizations. Remember, we know next to nothing about the histories of some peoples and even empires that existed less than 1-2000 years ago

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Well done team! Absolutely amazing work. Thank you very much

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not only that, but 90% of that has been lost or falsified to suit the whims of conquerors.

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There was so much knowledge I didn’t expect to learn to learn packed into this and so many books I want to add to my collection of books I’ll probably never fully read

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I upvote this idea. Both of them would create an awesome historical episode!

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Love Fall of Civilizations as well. History with Cy is another one of my go to’s. If you like history (which I’m guessing you obviously do) he doesn’t have a KZbin channel (I don’t tbink…) but Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast is easily one the best out there!! Cheers from Canada! ☮️🙏🇨🇦🍻

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I actually just looked it up and Dan Carlin DOES have a KZbin page now!! And it looks like all of his material is there too!

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Pete you are the GOAT of independent history documentaries. I have learnt so much from you and your videos. I will use them to teach my children history and develop the same fiery passion I and so many others feel when we watch these epics. Thank you.

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Pls don't teach your kids with conspiracy theories

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This was amazing! It really gave you a sense of how civilization would later evolve. Everything was a continuity with multiple transition phases.

[@phil5992]

SUPER appreciate the included bibliography/sources. Great work

[@dovaahkiin]

I was in Göbekli Tepe last summer.It's a fascinating place,everyone should definitely visit it.Come to see the beginning of civilization with your own eyes and stare for hours...

[@Archangels1]

That’s a theory of course. There are much older sites in Italy. Under ground cities carved out of solid rock.

[@islammehmeov2334]

​@@Archangels1there are the same in TURKIYE too

[@amandalyons1719]

In my younger day’s I helped unearth part’s for you to visit last summer 😉 seeing this up close is something else isn’t it?

[@iknowyoureright8564]

@@amandalyons1719thanks for what you done. It must have been a privilege, and something to look back and be thankful for.

[@spartan963300]

@@Archangels1 Source? I'd be interested to read about this, they defo weren't cities back then.

[@sherj8274]

Not just the content, your narration is incredible. Great work, and much appreciated.

[@gingerschoenherr4778]

The best 3 hours I have ever spent! Remarkable program! I learned so much information from you! Answers to so many questions I've had for so many years! What an awesome Gathering of information put in one program explaining human development impossible theories of Gobekli Tepe. THANKYOU

[@SithLordDarthBane]

I was just here last summer but have relatives in the area who have told me about all the discoveries for over 17years now. I finally made the journey and was not disappointed. It’s a beautiful area and you did a great job telling the story !! Thanks !

[@begincalcination]

I'd only really briefly looked into Göbekli Tepe when I read that its discovery had dethroned the neolothic temples of Malta as the oldest free standing structures in the world, so I really loved learning so much about the site, as well as about the cultural context it may have been built in. Thank you for the wonderful video!

[@ateondeder5725]

It still surprises me that such high quality, entertaining content is free on youtube. Amazing!

[@kristyna1312]

Wow! Thank you for this video. You have my deepest respect for working on this master piece for a year!!! Special plus points for including Dolní Věstonice (my country) in it haha :D. Great video, thanx ;).

[@user-kt7qz6eh1z]

Preparing a video like this takes so much time and effort! It's like writing a literature review paper/video that is appealing to both scholars and laypeople. Well done!

[@keencole]

Deepest sense of gratitude, Pete and team. Prehistory is my favorite and you covered it brilliantly! Hopefully more prehistoric sites are discovered so I can hear further commentary and speculations on such topics 🙏🏼

[@neilmcdonald7824]

This is, by far, the most amazing/satisfying history video i've watched on youtube. the sheer scope of time we are talking about blows my mind. Thank you Mr Pete Kelly you are doing a great service to everyone interested in history. I also love every single one of your other feature length documentaries.

[@juliia147]

Thank you for your incredible work, one of the best documentaries I have ever seen! Amazing that it’s just you and you - way better than all major documentaries on TV with a huge production team

[@daveslater9141]

Your presentations have peaked my interest so much, they are so well made, interesting and captivating Sir, I've little interest in anything else, I can't thank you enough for giving my spare time a meaning again, I can't wait each day to settle down and peruse your work, you should be immensely proud of yourself. 👍❤️

[@theneurologist1]

This is absolutely FANTASTIC!!!! Thank you for your hard work! 👍🏻 Edit: your editing skills have really become phenomenal

[@InUteroKDC]

I love how everything is always deemed a ‘temple’ or ‘tomb’ no matter how little is truly known, proven, or understood.

[@edgabrielocay3376]

when they found human bones buried, its a tomb, if they found altars for sacrifice, its a temple.

[@InUteroKDC]

@@edgabrielocay3376 doesn’t mean that whatever structure it is was necessarily used for that, and also could’ve been used something entirely different and then was occupied by a different civilization.

[@westleybutler]

Glad you like it

[@Mk101T]

@@InUteroKDC It's because of all the "t"s at the site. So naturally people think tomb or temple . But I suppose it could be a ticking timebomb also ??? tiki torch . . . maybe :P hehe

[@Weizsaecker]

Wow! Tbh I do not expect very much from archeology videos on YT, but man what a surprising experience your video was. You not only present Göbekli Tepe as the Wonder of the World that it is, but you put it in a much bigger context of ≈30,000 yrs. I bow my head in awe to you and the efforts you made!

[@woltersworld]

I felt it when you said... team of one. I feel you my friend. Great work

[@WickedNature2112]

Hence my KZbin name LOL

[@josephhall5681]

​@@WickedNature2112what? What do you have to do with anything?

[@jimmillward3505]

These video are some of the best produced documentaries ive watched. premium quality. your videos are art in themselves. you well deserve your sponsors

[@j.tal.5564]

Yes you are so right..... there are really good background thoughts

[@yvonne4078]

I just love this material. Have for 70 years. It's gotten better. Thank youb for sharing with us.

[@corvaxblackfeather6529]

I had the chance back in the past to stand directly nearby Stonehenge and even layed a hand against one stone for a few moments... feeling something that was moved, worked on and lived around so many thousands of years in the past makes one feel how small we all are in History ... i also have the same feeling when watching your Videos and i thank you a lot for them.

[@HeLIFlrE]

Amazing work, Pete - congratulations! I have watched everything out there on Göbekli Tepe and this one is the new benchmark, by miles. I also absolutely love the "full-immersion" feel of your long docs , you just can't get that kind of depth with programs that are crammed into standard-length format. Thank you so much for being a rebel and doing it the way that these subjects deserve!

[@johnspurlin408]

This channel at least needs a “Buy me a coffee” link. Dude, you’re awesome and I want to buy you a coffee.

[@johnspurlin408]

Ah. I see the thanks button. On it!

[@itsjustme1616]

I have a nasty habit of skipping through ads, but I feel compelled to listen to the whole thing even though this is quite literally the first time I’ve stumbled across one of your videos. Subscribing and liking as well in hopes I can support your content passively!

[@Blueecliptic]

You are amazing. Thank you for your dedication. Always fascinated by Gobekli Tepe. You provide so much information.

[@brianmarshall1762]

So this temple complex was all before the Bronze Age. Image the amount of work involved in just carving the animals into rock, let alone the amount of effort to moving and building it all. Just amazing.

[@quetzalcoatlz]

Carving the animals and rock could be done with other stones. The majority of the drawings of deities were done on sandstone.

[@KingNoTail]

It is way older than the Bronze Age. It has been dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic with was between 9500-8000 BCE. The site is unbelievably old.

[@leesenger3094]

I was having an average kind of weekend working on the construction site today. I get home and out of the shower to find a new History Time video dropped and my weekend has turned fantastic! And 2 1\2 hours!!!! On Göbekli Tepe!!!! Awesome!!! Thanks Pete!!!

[@seekthetruthuk]

Really great! I wish my channel was as good as this! Takes alot of time and effort to bring together a finished production like this. Great work

[@rosamwen2267]

You're the king of documentary making, hands down!!! Thanks for the massive effort ❤

[@FOOKYOUTUBENUMBERS]

This channel has come to be a absolutely outstanding Historian channel! Well done Pete all Your hard work and dedication over the years has served You very well, I think I speak for a lot of us who listen & watch Your amazing videos. We can’t thank you enough for your hard work, time, & perfection on each & every video it’s just amazing & for a one man team, I tip my hat to you Sir… Thank you so much Pete keep up the excellent work 🙏🙏👍

[@jelliebird37]

It’s weird seeing a face belonging to the voice. A voice that ethereal seems like it belongs to time itself. I get a sense of awe and wonder and unrequited memories thinking about the long march of eons before our time. And your narration strikes a *perfect* chord with that feeling. Really, you do an amazing job with these videos. Thank you!

[@rickcarmack5850]

i have literally backed up twice to see your face.your voice and cadence are amazing man.

[@scottmowdy3856]

Nice.i enjoyed this very much from the hills of the pacific northwest!

[@JohnTandy74]

Thank for this phenomenal history dude. Got to be so careful these days. So much soft propaganda is disguised as education or history but your well researched, concise, informative & beautifully presented videos are reliable, scientific & non biased allowing knowledge to speak for itself through your skilfully produced professional posts… warm regards & my sincere thanks 🙏🏻

[@ChaoticHoly]

The intricacy in design and construction of this temple illustrates a people well-practiced and highly knowledgeable in building these form of structures. In other words, there is little chance that Göbekli Tepe is the "first" temple ever built. Oldest surviving, maybe.

[@nildaluzrodriguez]

Good observation

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

As someone who used to be a professional researcher I give you full marks for this and your other documentaries. I recognize the epic amount of work for one person these take - i assume that you have OCD when it comes to research like i did once haha? just a little advice: dont let the other important things in life , especially healthy relationships with significant others, be sacrificed on the Altar of Research like I did for many years. Its not impossible but definitely much more difficult to "catch up" on that when you are in your 50s or so versus when a young man like yourself. I know there exists many young history fanatics out there, take the time to find one - and make these great documentaries a joint production with one of them' cant see how Life could be much better in that scenario. Anyways great work again & all the best to you and your future endeavors in 2024 (and beyond) from Calgary Canada.

[@robertholcomb-ug4dp]

Keep it up, i can't imagine what it takes to make a show this interesting and well done , by yourself, but i appreciate it. Please keep em coming.

[@tomglidewell2032]

I've watched dozens of videos about Gobeckli Tepe and this one is by far the best. Fantastic job with providing context and the big picture.

[@wendellrider1212]

Yes it is a good start. Otherwise there are older places.

[@kasturipillay6626]

What a sophisticated civilisation. No words to even explain how astonishing these inhabitants were. ❤❤

[@moutsatsosa]

Forgive me for asking but what do you know about this civilisation and their sophistication and most importantly could you provide your souces so that we can study them also?

[@Sonics1DiscordKitten]

​@@moutsatsosajust based off a structure is this size, this early in human history, is pretty telling

[@kasturipillay6626]

@@moutsatsosa no problem, Gobekli tepe is considered the oldest civilization found. There could be older civilizations in other parts of the world, that's not unearthed (under debris etc). This is neolithic civilization, meaning these inhabitants existed abt 50 to hundred thousand years ago. Monolithic stones were used to build their homes etc. gonna watch this episode again to fully understand. It's really the first Gobekli tepe I watched so far. I enjoy documentaries on these old civilizations. 🙂👍

[@kasturipillay6626]

@@moutsatsosa there are a few other channels on KZbin, on Gobekli tepe, you know trying to figure out the hand bag theory 😁

[@moutsatsosa]

@@kasturipillay6626 According to Herodotus in the passage where he talks about the gods with the Egyptian priests they state that the "gods" lived around 50.000(dont remember the exact number but can find it,it was somewhere in the range of 50-40) years before their time. I know historians and archeologists dismiss that passage as false due to the fact that they haven't found anything to prove the existence of human organized cities of that time but as we know most likely there was a cataclysm or a large scale extinction event that most likely caused the downfall of the civilizations of that era. The Greeks have documented 3 different cataclysms.The most recent one is the cataclysm of Deukalion which is the same with the one referred to in the bible.The one previous to that was called the cataclysm of Dardanos and the first one is called the cataclysm of Ogegos. I know that the oldest found full developed city in Greece at the moment is called Sesclo and it was first inhabited around 7000 bc and was abandoned around 4.400 bc. There's another city in Greece called Demenion that is fully excavated and estimated to have 5000 citizens with all kinds of shops and a market.That dates to 4.800 bc. If there were big cities with shops,houses and administrative buildings at -7000 this means that the people that used to live there were far more developed that the common consensus. As a kind neolithic to me meant fire sticks and stones and a lot of hair.Today after a lot of research and reading I know that neolithic people in some certain parts of the globe is not that different from those that we call ancients.

[@TheHappyhorus]

Dude, what do I think? A-maze-zing! That what I think, I’ll have to watch in chunks to digest it though. People like you sharing their passions in ways for us to all enjoy? What a joy. And time well spent dude. High five 🖐️

[@lazbogi]

Absolutely blown away and captivated by this wonderful presentation!

[@burrellbikes4969]

Could this be Pete’s Magnum Opus?! Absolutely beautiful and all I want to do now is learn even more about this time period. I’m also impressed that he was able to pronounce “Gobekli” accurately each time. I always move the L to right after the B.

[@Dtrich79]

Pete Kelly, you are a phenomenal history investigator. Thankyou for this video 🙏

[@supme7558]

🤣

[@andyevans8828]

A BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY MATE. ONE OF THE BEST I'VE SEEN IN AGES. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. 👍👍👍

[@TheLacedaemonian300]

Bravo, Pete! A masterpiece by every measure. Well worth the wait. This will be the go to video on the topic for a while. Great job, man.

[@purpracer]

You are a great narrator, love all of your work.

[@alpayerdogrul]

Love your approach. You did not leave a section of literally the spirit of the place. Keep up the hard work!

[@xLILxWANGx]

Incredible work m8

[@lindamalone9174]

I lived in Turkey for a year and as I watch I feel so privileged to have been in the presence of such amazing history. I feel it wash over me. My stunning first view of Constantinople lives in my head and heart ever since. It rewired my brain. I loved being there. Every memory is a gift.

[@orchidorio]

Congratulations! I envy you.

[@Ezgi_rby]

Coreection. Istanbul.

[@kieranh2005]

Now Istanbul. Historically Constantinople.

[@Ezgi_rby]

@@kieranh2005 oh really?! It was also called Lygos, New Rome, Augusta Antonina, Kostantiniyye, Stambol. Why Constantinople then?! And it's clear that it's not history we're talking about. So, İstanbul is what it is.

[@bilgzmcr7035]

Constantinople? You havent learned a single thing while you were there have you?! You re not welcome back, muppet

[@daniverson5860]

This might be your best work yet. This is a fantastic presentation that puts together an awful lot of material, and is stunningly up-to-date. So glad you're doing this, thank you so much.

[@hatfullofsky2470]

I echo this point. Thank you ❤

[@berniemaopolski4870]

Agreed

[@apeethaarunagiri2935]

Me too, I shall watch it again certainly, Gobekli Tepe is fascinating, I do hope more films about the interrelated sacred sites.

[@tracieholt9614]

Incredible. I'm so grateful for your riveting archeological content. I am a sponge absorbing the fluidity of your narration.. ❤