MAJOR DISCOVERY: 11,000-Year-Old ‘SKULL ROOM' Discovered at Sefer Tepe

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[@very5ick112]

skools

[@tinkerstrade3553]

Finally, something I can smoke a (medical) bowl while waiting for my back to ease up, at nearly 2:00 am. 👍

[@TheARN44]

Finally, something good in my subscription feed to listen to while doing dishes

[@AncientArchitects]

That’s what I do when I’m doing dishes - listen to youtube!

[@onixotto]

Y'all need dishwashers. Or wives.

[@Dvpainter]

Deflesh those dishes

[@clayton5584]

If you can get past the Canadian accent 😂 Just ribbin love your accent

[@onixotto]

@clayton5584 is that what it is? Me thinking it was some vocal cords anomaly. 🫢

[@edgarsnake2857]

I saw Kayleigh's video about her remarkable visit to Sefer Tepe. And today here you are with even more info. It's like getting two wonderful cakes from two excellent bakers. I've been watching your videos since you had a very few thousand subs. Your commitment to maintaining a high standard of quality in your reporting makes each video a joy for your subscribers. Thanks, Matt.

[@AncientArchitects]

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[@philmccracken2012]

Kaylee is a very strange person

[@rb-pk8ds]

​@@philmccracken2012.. sure - but GOOD strange :-)

[@AncientArchitects]

You can also check out the new video on Sefer Tepe from History with Kayleigh, who was lucky enough to visit the site earlier this year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX_KgWaFea16qZosi=1Yv47u1Ae9Xz4yCq

[@lynnmitzy1643]

❤👍🏼saw it .thank you Matt. Big fan of you and Klee 🥀

[@HistoryWithKayleigh]

Thank you for sharing my video 😊

[@HistoryWithKayleigh]

Great video Matt, once again, the Tepe Master taught us all well👏

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks!!!!! 🇳🇱

[@nathanwaddell3300]

The Skull Room is a bone repository. This is seen in tombs all around Jerusalem as well. The dead would be laid out on slabs and after the bodies had decomposed, they would place the bones in a bone repository under the floor or in an adjacent chamber. Eventually, the bone repository would have to be reorganized to fit more bones, and they would sometimes stack them in patterns or interlocking placement. It is fascinating that it was being done in the Pre-pottery Neolithic!

[@eskanderx1027]

Wasn't this practiced much later in time? Like 2K BC?

[@lamberttuffrey6064]

Fantastic, every bit of extra info is so welcome!

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you

[@banditbaker1675]

Thank you for battling through your virus to bring us the video, I hope that you get back to full health soon

[@michaelwynn8763]

Sounds like a sky burial. Vulture carrying a skull. This must bring into question whether the roofs were covered. Great video as always

[@AncientArchitects]

Sky burials wouldn’t have been in the settlement, but away on the outside somewhere. Homes and domestic buildings were right next to the communal structures, so you wouldn’t want vultures ripping apart carcasses next to your home.

[@RobertodelaVega-t3w]

If the Skulls were "de-fleshed" what did they do with the meat? Was it eaten by the relatives? Are we looking at a highly advanced Cannibalistic Society?

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

@@AncientArchitects Good point. So maybe the skulls were deposited after the period of worshipping them ended in that pit as a way of ceremonially ending the mourning period. Who knows exactly why a room was designated for holding skulls.

[@mcburcke]

I noticed several "composite" T-pillars in some of the photographs, made up of separate stone blocks that are stacked in the classic "T" shape. Interesting variation on the unitary ones.

[@AncientArchitects]

Yes, this is the architecture more common in the east - Boncuklu Tarla etc - those in the Tigris basin. We see a real blend of styles at Sefer Tepe.

[@roybatty2030]

Another wonderful video, thanks. The music is evocative of mystery and awe and seems very appropriate for this subject and the way you present it.

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks for watching

[@yoonchongong8914]

Thanks!

[@RumakKapadocki]

Leaving a comment for the algorithm. Amazing site.

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you!

[@Machine9000]

3:55 I think those may be amulets used for magic charms. It's interesting to see the tradition go so far back!❤

[@StirlingLighthouse]

I hope you feel better soon! Great video at any rate. Thank you 🙏

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you!

[@whartonoutdoors7493]

Reminds me of the Catholic Ossary Crypts that we had prior to Henry VIIIth deposing Catholicism and creating the Church of England. The ossary crypts were then sealed and buried as they fell out of favour with the Church of England. Interesting find.

[@zanbudd]

Hope your cold clears up soon! Thanks for the Mr. Bean moment and the fascinating video 🙏🏼🦋

[@reynaldoreina9837]

Thank you for the new information out of Sefer Tepe. Hope you feel better soon.

[@joconnor57]

The jewelry finds are really beautiful and interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[@asheden3779]

Those Jade beads are insane!

[@flipperzero9662]

A comment below for my guy, thanks for putting out great videos all the time!

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you!

[@maxalburg5665]

Oooh SKULLS… for half the video i thought you were saying SCHOOLS…. And i was thinking.. how do they know it was used as a classroom.

[@AncientArchitects]

😂😂😂 Sorry!

[@maxalburg5665]

@@AncientArchitects no problem. i wasn't paying enough attention. and its part of your charm that makes us all love you.

[@Sibyle79]

I thought the same thing at first 😂

[@Lemma01]

It's the English Midland accent, overlaid by a cold! Great!!😂

[@permabroeelco8155]

Yes, I realized that, but forgot it when we went to that ‘schoolroom’.

[@additudeobx]

Thanks for what you do for the understanding and knowledge of the Ancient Architecture of our world. I decide listening to you, along with others, about the possible realities presented. Mark and Zahi can no longer cast a pen and paper to their honestly, frivolous ideas and expect all others to "Play Dead and Roll Over Tipts Up" in servitude to their voices.

[@AncientArchitects]

I’m always honest in videos. If I change my mind, I tell people. And make another video explaining why 👍

[@additudeobx]

@@AncientArchitects Correcting oneself is a virtue.

[@susanliebermann5721]

Fascinating! I had not heard of this discovery! Thank you for sharing!

[@TWOCOWS1]

Thank you for continuing to record and show the new Mirazan sites (the original, local local name for the recent official government name). Mirazan means a "miracle maker". The local, childless Kurdish women give offerings at the hill, hoping for a child. The fertility myth of the hills still lingers. Mirazan is the meaningful, local name for this entire super old civilization/culture. A lot better than the silly name of Gobekli ("potbelly"), or Karahan ("black tribal chief", instead of the meaningful local name of Sederi ,”three gates”)-- given to it by the ruling government there . I hope you continue showing us more and more of the Mirazan sites as they get dug up. The name for the entire culture that created these wonderful structures around 12000 years ago is the MIRAZAN CULTURE. Then the local native names should used for individual hills and sites.

[@joejones5677]

The culture of the ancestors is alive wherever there is a skull room. Thanks for the program and I hope your cold is better now.

[@buzzzzzz69]

Thoroughly enjoyed that. TYSM 😊🌻

[@smillstill]

This sort of thing reminds me of the X-Files episode "Theef", where the deep-country witch-doctor practicing folk-magic can't take the corpse with him that he keeps in his home as a charm fetish, so he just takes the skull with him. Apparently, that is the most essential part of the person. As true today as it was 11,000 years ago.

[@Morechinlockvicar]

Great episode.

[@AncientArchitects]

Great comment, great episode, great show!

[@armandosimon9780]

I wonder if most of the neolithic findings are the rest of people that found cover and used older ruins that have stood there like in many other cases....The question for me is how we date those places....

[@summersolstice884]

That is so interesting that we have elements of terrazzo and buttresses - - That is so very sophisticated for first buildings of these people - - Thank you for sharing your knowledge of this incredible period of ancient history - - I do hope you will feel better soon - - Peace!

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Can you imagine Rowan Atkinson doing a comedy archeological skit? That would hilarious!! Anyway, great video. Hope you're feeling better!!

[@AncientArchitects]

Love Rowan Atkinson!

[@michaelhorgan9835]

That burial info is a game changer for who these people are and thier form of worship. Well done

[@sarahspencer9360]

Fascinating! ❤

[@AncientArchitects]

👍

[@Morechinlockvicar]

Fantastic content again Matt.

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you 🙏

[@Chris-64832]

Zones where two cultures/styles meet. Always interesting

[@TheImmortalArt]

Wow! Yet again, cool video!

[@kopsinis]

This channel is AMAZING. Thank you

[@lynnmitzy1643]

🕊sending healing vibes Matt

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks!

[@kdurukal]

Another great video. 👌

[@kdurukal]

5:19 the round shape thing is very interesting.It seems it has a very special purpose. But what is this??

[@sidcymraeg]

Great video hope you feel better soon.

[@synisterfish]

Cheers Matt. Great episode.

[@garethmartin6522]

Maybe this goes some way to explaining that painted scene with vultures and headless corpses. That was odd, and notable because of course the question of violence swirls about such sites. But if it was their custom to keep the head and expose the body, that illustration makes more sense.

[@sitindogmas]

always appreciated this info. ✌️ hopefully we can get to the bottom of this over the next 150 years lol.

[@billmiller4972]

Just the other day, Kayleigh also meda a video about the site. We are not only seeing a new chapter of human history but a whole new book.

[@LiamRedmill]

This gives great hope for future archaeology,and your presentation gives us dream's,and hopefully not tomb robber's.dna lineages and exchange's,migration's could be truly fascinating across many different fields of science and history,thankyou so much for your extremely interesting work/interest's/hypothesis

[@scottzema3103]

So incredibly important. Similar to the excavations at Jericho. Cult of ancestors. Modern Melanesia.

[@elizabethmitchell5925]

Hope you feel better soon

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you

[@antibrevity]

Get well soon!

[@Eyes_Open]

Rowan Atkinson will solve these ancient mysteries.

[@AncientArchitects]

😂😂😂

[@miltonbates6425]

I see by your wensite scrolling that you're in the market for a backyard sauna. Excellent investment! Highly recommended!

[@AncientArchitects]

I’m really not! Never have been - so weird! It’s too cold outside to have one and my back yard is tiny. If there was a list of things I really want, that’s not on it 😂😂😂

[@jasminsmithies898]

Wouldn't it be cool to see a Netflix drama set 12,000 yrs ago at Gobekli Tepe! Once we have enough information gathered from the sites to put the whole thing in perspective. Wish i was a producer 😂

[@stevecurl7430]

Thank you!

[@AncientArchitects]

Cheers

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Thanx Matt ❤👋🏼

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you 🙏

[@KenLieck]

A max Head Room discovery!

[@chitacarlo]

the discovery of this miniatures of t-pillars is full of important implications!

[@Lemma01]

Ooooh. Genuinely interesting indeed - thanks Matt. I suppose we can hope to find any relationship between the skulls: so, are they homogenous (all male fellow tribesmen?), or a heterogeneous selection of victims? So a Hall of Valour, or a Hades of Villains? Dead creepy, but fascinating.

[@HalfOfAQuarter]

Could some of the skulls be defeated enemies?

[@tattoosergen]

Are you planning to come back to Turkey anytime soon? those videos were super interesting.

[@AncientArchitects]

Hopefully in 2025. If not, def 2026!

[@tattoosergen]

@@AncientArchitects Always welcome! Amazing science and archeology communicators like you are quite rare to find ! If you're visiting Istanbul I'd be happy to show you around.

[@makjanks]

I would love to see if they could get DNA from the skulls and try to find direct descendents

[@DalHrusk]

5:55 this skull belongs to my 587x great grandpa. Possibly I share him in common with you

[@IvorMektin1701]

It was scary to learn my DNA test said I was related to Norse corpses dug up in Greenland and a 7000BCE bronze age corpse found in central Asia.

[@robertrabel1014]

Great!

[@crashingstoans7907]

Any video that starts off with Mr. Bean get an automatic thumbs up.

[@triluve]

any info on the DNA?

[@AncientArchitects]

Until this skull cache, DNA analysis has been hard so far due to poor preservation of human remains. Hopefully there will be something in this they can use! The skulls are now being analysed by scientists.

[@ThePdog3k]

It would be interesting if the filling in of these sites has a way to be dated, as it seems to be the rule rather than the exception with these sites, it might give a clue as to why they were filled, or what the purpose of the sites was. It seems clear that this was visual way of communicating concepts and ideas that the ancient world would have understood. And at some point someone had a vested interest in hiding that information.

[@krisbruenn1082]

Ancestors, or prisoners? What does the end of the site signify?

[@NeptunesLagoon]

As I have said in many of my vids: the ancient’s used to let the birds carry away the deceased into the heavens, and a vulture is a normal vehicle… 😮

[@AncientArchitects]

Leaving the skull and long bones, which were ceremonially buried

[@floydriebe4755]

hey, Matt! get well, my friend....bad time of year to have a cold hang on so long. very interesting, this......makes one ponder the reason(s) for the skull room. defleshing bodies is, oh so close to cannibalism. prolly not, in this case.....prolly some form of religion or sumpin, yes!!?? a trading center....yes! the two building styles together here makes one think that the "stores" were built by the individual merchants, ergo, the differences. definitely a gathering place for slightly different "cultures", for want of a better word. anyhoo, get well and keep sending these out! we'll keep watching!!

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks for the comment! Appreciate the info.

[@thadoog666]

Ohh wow !

[@baxpiz1289]

what a hip joint v humerus

[@kristybarker924]

Have they done lidar?

[@claudiaxander]

Never met a Tepe I didn't like! Cheers.

[@leslab007007]

Thankyou Mr Bean

[@aleksandarnikolic2743]

😮😮does they know dna results of sculls?👍

[@historybuff7491]

I guess the small T-shaped stones are from making miniature buildings to hold their roofs up.

[@AncientArchitects]

😂😂😂 The original dolls house

[@baxpiz1289]

they knew how to get a head in the world

[@mattpelletier5368]

Are any of the skulls elongated?

[@k9thundra]

Looks like a skull trophy room.

[@KenNeumeister]

the more we find the more things don't add up

[@edgarsousa6630]

Sorry, maybe you've mentioned it... Were the skulls dated?

[@andya857]

Fantastic..

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks for watching

[@michaelhorgan9835]

This Neolithic tool were probably in use as a low-cost form of tools, while the rich and high classes were using metals. Concurrent is what I'm getting at.

[@phoneguy4637]

so that's what a neolithic dentist's office looks like... ^^

[@AncientArchitects]

Their teeth were awful. They analysed the skulls from Cayanu and the teeth were very worn, so many had gum disease and many had abscesses.

[@phoneguy4637]

@AncientArchitects because they didn't know the concepts of throrough hygienics. plus, they didn't know antibiotics.

[@BernhardErnst]

Did they not have quite a stench to deal with due to decomposition? Maybe they used the heads to somehow have their ancestors with them once the ancestor has passed away. That might explain the plaster to resemble the person in death as he/she has been in life.

[@dandavatsdasa8345]

Speaking of handkerchiefs, I am wondering if everyone around these sites are keeping face masks. Have they studied the dust at these sites to discern fungus or other possible contaminants?

[@CarlosLeon-n3t]

Some people still bury their bodies under their floors

[@harrybloom9213]

Beads were probably used as money to trade

[@Herbit-k4j]

I wonder if this is some ancestral version of the Indo-European head cult meme. I believe some celts had similar nooks in their homes to display heads. Also the question is if these were friend or enemy skulls.

[@905Speed]

Look at all of those schools in those school rooms! XD

[@kricketflyd111]

I'm not used to seeing skulls and body parts so deteriorated and broken like this, could a compression wave do this? Maybe these deaths are cataclysm related?

[@jimmyzbike]

so much lies just beneath our feet

[@gammaknight2215]

Maybe they found a vampire temple. That's what Skyrim has taught me

[@scottzema3103]

DNA Baby DNA. We have teeth!

[@oooooo3839]

symbolic as writing is symbolic?

[@dougwotton1046]

It wouldn't surprise me if the skulls were the descendants of Noah!

[@neohermitist]

I've yet to see a Christian genesis sites try to even give a timeline of these societies.

[@nickthegardener.1120]

I very much doubt they buried their settlements considering everything for miles was buried,mi would say it was a catastrophe.

[@rfbftp123]

Wow a school room 🤭

[@DrCorvid]

There's a cave near here in the Pacific Northwest that a guide and outfitter says contained about 1000 skulls only it looked like, elongated, all of the ones he saw. It goes with lore accouts of the famed demigod landing on the mountain and living there while he and his team visited many of the local "indian" cities. Fact is in this wet belt they will be more recent than the dry belt ones but still demigod-elongated, unlike the skulls of the Ainu part Siberioan "Mongols" they "brought with them" according to Navajo/Na-Dene/Athapaska/Apache lore. Tartary builders it seems, with huge diking and civilisation around the northern seas, now visible but in ruins of course...

[@markmurphy8078]

Interesting...wish to hear more...❤

[@DrCorvid]

@@markmurphy8078 I was running the giants story past a cop, who said years ago he was called for a "skull on the beach" that neither the nnatives nor crown council wanted anything to do with. Southern Vancouver Island. Sitecah Provincial Park on northern Vancouver Island does have a ring to it, like Si-te-ca who were smoked out and killed in Lovelock Cave. These redheaded giants I do believe coz the timeframe is right would be the ones the Ainu indians drove back across the Pacific up the Amur river, their depots burned along the way, killing the fur trade. Reminds me of the local killer whales vs thunderbirds waer as you can imagine... Perhaps they had built Tartary as well, as the natives according to Tsimshian storytellers had arrived in sufficient numbers to outcompete in the northern areas, which still show huge cities in ruins and harbours and diking with tech weapon holes periodically showing on the northern oceans. The Amorite/Amur River kingdoms' root language of Ket Gaelic is the root of the Tarim Basin giants, and Pacific Northwest natives Na-Dene/Athapaska, Navajo and Apache...gaelic dialects were global and perhaps pre-Babylonian invasion.

[@lukehanley5392]

School rooms ?.

[@ramonkirk5944]

And why are the burying schools?

[@rhettoracle9679]

Defleshed human bones in piles, carvings of vultures...could these people have been cannibals? (Vultures are birds that don't capture live animals but feast on dead remains)

[@pepperspray7386]

is this why some folks call the bathroom "the head?"

[@arzucufoglu8932]

Thank you Matt,Mr Bean😂😂😂

[@camilapereyra321]

1:38 it seems that someone is plannimg to buy a sauna