BREAKING NEWS - Astonishing Revelations at 'Oldest Temple on Earth' // Gobekli Tepe

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[@PeteKellyHistory]

In a different world I'd be preparing to visit Gobekli Tepe this summer. Alas the ancient sites of Turkey will have to wait until next year. This shorter video will have to suffice for now, until I get to make my hour long doc after I've visited the place. Hope you're all well and enjoy the vid! Myself and my brother David @ Voices of the Past have a new channel for you all to enjoy, charting the entire history of our planet! We have two videos out so far. Go check it out here and don't forget to subscribe! Cheers all! kzbin.info/door/_aOteuWIY8ITg7DQQspG1g

[@nitab1971]

How is one able to visit the site?

[@authenticmax6350]

I just don't understand how you guys stamp the word "Oldest"... there are many places that competes for the word Oldest...

[@kenea3226]

Great work Pete! I would like to see you dedicate a short video on the study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal. I read it, I'm no archaeologist, I appreciate the amount of research you must put into your work so would very much respect your opinion on it. I would love it if its true! but it seems a reach, so far, to me.

[@hakancalml260]

Hi, I'm from Turkey . I strongly recommend to visit and explore Göbekli Tepe. You will see our people's hospitality and generosity. This bellied hill is a proof how civilizations develop and collapse. Morover, it is a warning to know our sources' worth on Earth. Rage, devastation, hostility, and war, all of them are temporal. There is Turkish proverb to depict Göbekli Tepe: donkey dies, its saddle remains, human dies, his/her work remains.

[@LSOP-]

I went in 2009 & 2012, well worth the visit.

[@bakfixx]

Only 10% currently excavated. Still a lot to explore.

[@j.kaimori3848]

Should we really be digging it all up though. Everything we dig means it won't be dated properly in future. It's bittersweet for me.

[@kevwhufc8640]

@@j.kaimori3848 absolutely spot on, we prefer to leave the archaeology alone unless it's under threat , because its safer and less likely to rot , left in it's own eco system under the ground. Museums are running out of storage spaces and places like the settlement above only need a couple excavating bc its unlikely anything else would be learned by digging them all up . Leave archaeology alone unless buildings or roadways are going to destroy it, then remove and record everything.

[@johnnyipcus9974]

@@kevwhufc8640 we should then build bigger museums or just build another.. .. We wouldn't learn anything from our past if we didn't dig things up, guess the info we hear archaeology is only what they want us to believe most of it is controlled and a lie... All on the payroll any one not on the payroll speaks up they loose there career... Guess we probably would be better off leaving it then people would have to have an open mind to history besides the brain washing

[@kevwhufc8640]

@@johnnyipcus9974 I couldn't agree more, if I was in charge I'd expand the current iron age/Roman museum , and a better museum for the post Roman story of my city StAlbans, about the Saxon , and later medieval story of the city. Instead of that our council Sold the small post Roman museum and its now posh apartments . The people in charge of the money don't care about answering questions or anything else except selling land. Archaeology is bottom of their list of importance. Its disgusting disgraceful and theres nothing we can do. Funding is the problem and when people in charge don't care about the past and prefer to waste millions on ridiculous projects that nobody really wants or cares about, there's nothing we can do. Thsts why in our situation ( they also sold our primary storage facility , again for posh apartments. ) Its better to leave it undisturbed until we have people in charge who actually care & realise how important understanding learning & trying to answer the many unanswered questions is It just needs leaving alone. I would spend on new museums , excavations etc . But they won't, thsts why majority of excavations are *rescue digs " , removing archaeology before developers can start building and trash everything. Plus developers have to pay the council for the archaeology & that pays our ( my ) wages. It's a very frustrating and disheartening thing being restricted to the footprint of the new buildings, we can't go beyond no matter what might be there because developers only pay us to remove anything that would otherwise be destroyed by them building on archaeological sites. Thsts why its better off undisturbed until the current councillors leave or die or something.. It's sad, very sad.

[@kevink.7597]

@@johnnyipcus9974 I feel your passion for the field. Good for you and then some. Dr. Smidt left room for generations to dig up at Gobecli. And the hills around that area are teaming with T pillars. It is set up to be worked on by each generation. We solve the hate problems and maybe people can see it one day.

[@julianbristow4793]

It seems almost all of Turkey was a Neolithic area. I’m almost sure there are more sites yet undiscovered in the ground that are as old or even older than Gobekli Tepe.🙂👍🏻🌸

[@erkanelibuyuk7328]

Actually there js one more place which found in turkey and this place is 1000 years older than Göbeklitepe.... if you want to read about it.. name of place is boncuklu tarla..

[@julianbristow4793]

Erkan Elibuyuk ..... Great! I’m always interested in neolithic and Paleolithic sites, I’ll definitely look it up, thanks! 🙂

[@RossCampbell1992]

Ancient anatolia and iran (proto indo europeans, indo-iranians, etc) -> birth of singular monotheistic religious idea -> israel & mesopotamia & early greeks -> greek polytheistic (retaining early polytheism over 'modern' ancient monotheism) -> now Homo sapiens wandered the earth for 100,000's of years before the last 12,000 of history. What happened to cause the evolution of ideas? Was it a natural progression? Was it drug use? Did a large comet/meteor hit the planet that got people thinking 'scientifically'? etc :)

[@erkanelibuyuk7328]

@@julianbristow4793 you should visit turkey one day turkey is like history book from paleolithic period till present day you can see the stages step by step...

[@h.gonulyalcin5710]

In fact

[@khalidazhar101]

It's the oldest academically accepted, as they couldn't dispute this one

[@kevink.7597]

Zahi HowAss was not amused to have been blind-sided by the facts of this place and the dating that is causing the problems. But, he also stands in the way of us drilling holes into solid rock to determine what is on the other side of that rock. That is obstruction. As long as Egypt fakes research... I'm going to fake supporting them by boycotting all travel to Egypt.

[@danijel124]

Are there even older sites unoficially?

[@kevink.7597]

@@danijel124 Yes, several Tepe are said to have older origins. Too much conflict right now for field work.

[@khalidazhar101]

@@danijel124 yh the Sphinx being one of them.

[@RM-yf2lu]

It's the closest to Europe, so it gets all the love. Genetic history paint a picture pointing to large population centers in South and southeast Asia and one would think that some emphasis would be placed on investigating the ancient sites, but the eurocentric bias is strong within archaeology

[@hojowarf6488]

I love seeing breaking news from 12 thousand years ago!

[@analiviaminsk1171]

well said :D and also it´s a city not just a temple

[@billmiller4972]

One of the archeologists digging up the place mentioned that he once read a sumerian cuneiform tablet mentioning a myth that was considered half forgotten by the sumerians themselves. It was about a mountain far in the north. This mountain was inhabited by nameless but extremely powerful gods that ruled long before Inanna and Enlil and were the powers that raised humankind from savage beasts to civilization. Imagine: We're nearer to the ziqqurat builders than they were to those ancient humans! Abyss of time.

[@Diogolindir]

do you have the sources? Im curious

[@nelsonjv1]

Tell me more! So interesting

[@ripme6616]

It stands to reason' that these people new the catastrophe that was about to befall them..( younger dryas event/ biblical flood). so meticulously buried their wonder. Makes as much sense as any? Edit: this blokes taking the piss, with this many ads. Greed

[@billmiller4972]

@@Diogolindir That's all: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe#cite_ref-44

[@billmiller4972]

@spinning debbie Nemrud Dagh is awesome! But much, much younger. Nearer to us than to the Sumerians.

[@aquarionh2o132]

Why is it that everything people find is “a temple”? In 10,000 years someone is going to dig up a Mcdonalds and assert that ancient man used to worship here.

[@freddymuniz6494]

So tru

[@morgan97475]

Only the stoned ones who had munchies.

[@cherlyndeorosan9515]

Aquarion H2O 😂😂😂😂 Truth!!!

[@aquarionh2o132]

Gary Nelson the Hamburglar is the alien God the people made sacrifices too. What did they sacrifice??? Cows, of course.🥴

[@louisdebeer2055]

Oh Great and Powerful Big Mac, bestow us, your degenerate and bloated people, with thee divine sustenance

[@catherinewalker3087]

Thank you. ! I'm 63 years old and I'm learning many new things . your channel being one of them. I am very grateful for your hard work. Keep healthy and safe .

[@jjbud3124]

I just watched an archaeology video which said that DNA proved the Irish and Western Europeans originally came from Turkey, moved through the Iberian peninsula, and then to Western Europe and Ireland. This made me think of Gobekli Tepe and the stone constructions in Europe and Ireland. I wonder if the people who built GT are the same people who did Stonehenge and all the other stoneworks in Europe.

[@MrSmiley1964]

I'm not a history major, nor a history scholar. I'm just a man in his mid-50's who has always been fascinated with our ancient history. That said I can tell you, without reservation, that I enjoyed this video immensely. Such a wonderful time to be alive if you follow archeology. I will subscribe to and follow your other channels.

[@user-pq6mr6op3p]

I'm sorry your Peter is broken man, My sympathies.

[@francisfischer7620]

Nearly 70 and still fascinated! Isn't it great!

[@vincentmichael3338]

Great site I knew Klaus Schmidt and helped conserve the site in the 2010s

[@Notmehimorthem]

Do you know of any decent stuff on this site which does not involve aliens? Proper valid research science based

[@Nyctophora]

Cheers!

[@SherwoodMa63744]

Do you know if someone is conserving it now?

[@williamozier918]

Thank you for your work!

[@djstona5284]

you absolupt legend

[@LarryBrooks-cf9qp]

We dont know how advanced people were before the ice age. Just guesses

[@mike62mcmanus]

All that snow that piled up must have come from some hot spot or else no precipitation, how about global flood...?

[@OnlyDaria7250]

But probably not as primitive as we think...

[@justjeff3107]

Pre Adamites

[@bhministry]

@@mike62mcmanus hold up there big boy, before you go hurting your brain making unfounded comments, perhaps you should learn how to put a sentence together first.

[@mike62mcmanus]

@@bhministry Hold on there, I don't have to be an English major to see what you cant.

[@godfroi10991]

Has anyone contemplated whether or not Gobekli Tepe could have been a site specifically for consensus decision making and nothing else? Bear with me for a second.... There's no evidence for site occupation, feasting, refuse/rubbish etc that alludes to regular domestic usage. We are learning of contemporaneous habitations and ritual sites (often the same buildings!) all around the area, definitely associated with the same people. One thing that has been established is, there seems to be no Kings or a dominating hierarchy, merely a functional one for organisation. I propose that Gobekli Tepe could have performed the function of gathering place for these disparate but culturally connected peoples to make their Communities important decisions in. Perhaps gathering to elect new Shamans or decide on best crop planting times etc. The various Animal and Human figures carved on the up-right pillars could be as simple as Totems representing a particular village, family or person (No doubt with the Animals spiritual power bestowed on them, but perhaps also denoting who has right to sit where?) When Crops fail, the weather is violent, earthquakes occur or perhaps something as simple as a venerable Shaman passing or a significant village being abandoned or destroyed, could be enough to make them want to "Bury" the circle in-use and consecrate a new one? I've noticed that every enclosure is made to allow a seating pattern that leaves nobody elevated or prominent. This in itself is strange and feels egalitarian.... Also, the fact that some pillars are more elaborate in there designs, may simply be a reflection of who's regularly seated there. The Village that are predominately Jar & vessel makers, or farmers, won't have as detailed designs carved in there seating area as the villages that are known for that particular craft. With so much complexity in such an enigmatic site, I can make but a few minor points here. Though I do hope it may make a few people look at it from a slightly different angle I don't claim to be an expert so please give me some feedback everyone (Not just negative I beg of you! haha!) This is just an idea based on reading and a little intuition, not an attempt at a scholarly thesis. Thankyou if you've read through and gotten this far, I really appreciate your time!

[@sydneybriannataaffe1026]

A perfect place to host a Socratic seminar.

[@davidcoleman2463]

I remember first reading about this in National Geographic . So amazing . We have so much to still learn .

[@JWhisp]

Fascinating!

[@vals4207]

Go play minecraft !

[@estebanleacho9315]

Spock! Is that you?

[@majestic1025]

I find you everywhere even this video

[@BalkanMode]

Watching Klaus Schmidt’s presentation about “Göbekli Tepe” I thought “wow, a guy with a big ‘göbek’ presents something about a hill with a ‘göbek’”. It crossed my mind this wasn’t healthy as people aged. Then I read comments that Klaus had passed away from a heart attack a few weeks after that publication. Sad. Thank you Klaus for all of your contributions and help in understanding our past!

[@lotsofspots]

Of course they're ground-breaking, that's how archaeology works!

[@alexv3357]

That's why archaeological discoveries are dis-cover-ies

[@elenamayson-davis9545]

😂

[@drew-shourd]

...hahahahahahahahaha....good one m8!

[@targetdemographic1257]

My dad would really enjoy this one

[@psychobear359]

Well played!

[@omranhashim1028]

10:05 Interesting content but feels like this video dragged on. Those that want to hear the latest news about the site probably already know the majority of what this video covers. Most of the video had me feeling like “get to the point already” Edit: added timestamp.

[@CloneDaddy]

For *you* , maybe. What about those that have heard *nothing* about it? *Everyone* has to start somewhere. If *your* knowledge exceeds that of this video, then you should just recognise that it's intended audience is the, as yet, un-enlightened, and move on. There is *no* need to criticise it. Otherwise, you risk seeming like a pretentious prick.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@CloneDaddy This video is titled "BREAKING NEWS" -- it should give the breaking news, not hours of back story. I'm out.

[@CloneDaddy]

@@nmarbletoe8210 Oooooohhh! Don't forget your handbag on the way out, deary.

[@cassieoz1702]

Yes, I think it's mostly the delivery style. Like american made-for-cable documentaries, the pre-amble is basically adverising/promotion for the rest of the vid and recap of things already covered. Disappointing

[@dshak73]

Clickity click clack click bait, bruh

[@magicpyroninja]

They like to talk about how they found no tools But if they took the time to bury the site why bury your tools with it?????

[@orczy351]

..so they found it like elsewhere? haven't heard that too... - look at those stone works tho, ..primitive hammer and chisel ae? noice.

[@popstudioacademy5425]

cus there were neat freaks and cleaned up well, after themselves lol

[@delyea]

I wish we buried our tools. They are called democrats.

[@dakotawint]

right?!

[@aidy6000]

Tools during this time were just other stones.

[@pca1987]

I, as probably almost everyone here, wished I had some time of time machine or time TV, so I could see how all these things looked like during their times. Also how people built them, used them, etc.. Oh, well, this type of things only happens on fiction. All I can do is imagine...

[@Arodnyc72]

A 100% correct, I feel the same!

[@donready119]

Civilization already existed. This was an attempt to restart things after the Younger Dryas extinction event.

[@ashsundar2473]

Archeologists don't know much past what the books already written allow them to say. Just a bunch of pussies perpetuating an old miscalculation by pompous wankers over 100 years ago

[@Daniel-yo5es]

just "look into it"... right? lmao

[@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584]

That's what I'm thinking

[@lockk132]

What was that event?...there are some saying due again in 2046 +/- a few years

[@jeffcook2570]

@@lockk132 a cataclysmic event with two major warming spikes around 12,800 ka and 11,600 ka. Possibly due to impact events but still unknown. Massive amounts of glacier melt and very fast. Huge extinction event especially of mega fauna. Global coastal regions desimated by flooding. Coincidentally...or perhaps not...the 11,600 ka date correlates precisely with the date Plato gave for the destruction of Atlantis. So much more! If this interests you then check out Randall Carlson.

[@jozz2248]

Great stuff, prehistory is so delectably fascinating.

[@mikenolastname2446]

8000 bc is where modern history stops , prehistory starts just before that

[@Justificus]

It would be very interesting to see the evolution of the mother/female goddess from the most ancient cultures to present.

[@gailhowes9398]

Thank you so much for your research into the past, you included the history of the present area of Gobleklii Tepe

[@PatchGuitar1]

I’ve been waiting for this video for 11,600 years

[@nzsooz3884]

Is that you Methuselah?

[@elysiumdevice]

@@nzsooz3884 what happened, Lazuras?

[@nzsooz3884]

@@elysiumdevice I think you mean Lazarus

[@elysiumdevice]

yep lol thanks

[@fuckamericanidiot]

From a British perspective, this existed at a time when we were connected to Europe!!

[@markthervguy]

and Dogerland was above the sea and teaming with life.

[@Nwmguy]

The original Brexit.

[@leehaseley2164]

That is a mindblowing way to look at it!

[@CloneDaddy]

@@Nwmguy No. "When we were *still* connected to Europe". When Doggerland was submerged is when your joke *might* work. Even jokes need the context to be correct.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

@@CloneDaddy I think he means when Doggerland was submerged, give him some credit xd

[@SKY-vp2pl]

I visited Gobekli Tepe last summer. It is extraordinary and worth the trip. The surrounding area is amazing with the ancient cities Ur and Harran. I highly recommend visiting. There is a second archeological site even bigger than Gobekli Tepe called Karan Tepe. Its about 1 hour way. This site is currently under excavation and not open to the public. I had the good fortune to visit this site also and met with the local archeologist. This site appears to be a city, and Gobekli Tepe appears to be a Temple that people may have used to monitor the precession of the equinox, and was a time capsule in some respects cataloging ancient wisdom about the end of the last ice age and what happened. On one column you clearly see what looks like a small dinosaur. Some type of animal now extinct from the last ice age.

[@tr7b410]

Sites of pillgrammage are an intrinsic part of raising one's consciousness because of the enegies found in certain locations. Benares-Mecca-Jerusalem are 3 examples. My theory is that the great pyramid was a metaphysical tool for projecting a higher consciousness into the ionosphere linked into the Schumanns resonounce. When the GOD frequency of 963htz is in an entrainment with the magnetitie in our brain tissues and the calcite in our pineal gland telepathic abilities and samadhi will be as normal as our different sleep states. The lower corbeled section acts as a resonator amplifying the shumanns resonounce.The upper level with the gold plated apex acts as the waveguide pumping out a consciousness elevating frequency. The arraignment of the pillars of Gobleki Tepe acted as a net trapping this frequency range,the pilgrims would have slightly different samadhis per their own level of practice & evolutionary trajectory. For a brilliant breakdown of the different types of consciousness see on utube Ramana Maharshi Be as You Are Chapter 12 Experience and Samadhi. Unfortunately we have for the last 2 thousand years been locked into 7.83htz =the spiritual/intellectual dark ages.We are now in an ascending spiritual evolutionary arc for the next 10k years. The pyramid will slowly be lighting up with this frequency range change,helping uplift the hearts & minds of the people.

[@SB-yf6tu]

This is so slept on in the media... fascinating

[@holyfox94]

“Breaking news” start at 11:00 and end at 11:15 How about a comparison of Maltas neolithic temples and Göb.Tepe? They’re very similar in layout.

[@vthings001]

Thanks.

[@ix-Xafra]

I'd say Hagar Qim predates due to it's more primitive artwork...

[@samanthaqiu3416]

Definitely, too bad there is no roof anymore, but perhaps an acoustic eigenanalysis could discover if the same resonant band signatures are present

[@pmboston]

Gatherings are not religious automatically. That is a prejudiced modernism.

[@vilijanac]

Yes, more likely an trading center and market place. No know roads are mentioned. Because it was so far in the past.

[@trwsandford]

Exactly! Every single time we find something old, the first thing that falls out of the mouth of an archaeologist is "this seems to have had religious significance"

[@glenchapman3899]

@@trwsandford Thats actually archaeology speak for 'We dont know' The guys on Time Team used to joke about this all the time.

[@WWZenaDo]

In ancient times "religion" was inextricably intertwined with the peoples' daily lives. It would be more accurate to point out that having religion *separate* from government and trade is innately modern.

[@RobinsRehab]

Hmmmmm.... Hey, Wild One... Hate to explode your soap bubble there Pookie... but the BuyBull isnt all that old when compared to the living entities that have lived on this planet. . . . ( Now dont ask me if I believe in a God,... I just believe in one less God than you do.)..... Archeology opens up in Technicolor one you remove the religious factors.

[@22patch22]

Went last week and to karahan Tepe it was absolutely astonishing . The museum at Sanliurfa was amazing it took over an hour to just get to the iron age .

[@HavanaOutpost]

Hunter gatherers building structures like this with written language? Yeah, that’s not a hunter gatherer.

[@utubeape]

yes the assumption of this is not helpful

[@Snarkonymous]

Is that based on your expert opinion?

[@HavanaOutpost]

Snarkonymous - Mine? Oh no, that’s why I rely on the expert on these videos and books. Are you blind and stupid? Or are you just trying to be a dick?

[@evilestmonkeey]

@@ActiuneBaza know what makes gathering easier? Farms.

[@douglasthompson7464]

@@evilestmonkeey your point ?

[@simonstergaard]

breaking news ?? there was nothing new said in this video.

[@smileyface9459]

I agree

[@LeeGee]

You knew about the equilateral triangle triangle data published in May?

[@exors4035]

Ninte appante poor

[@thelaughingprophet2275]

It's worth mentioning that the whole site was intentionally buried after its final form was completed. There is some discussion that this was done to protect and preserve the site and it's message for future civilisations

[@Alan62651]

Or to protect it from further predicted cataclysmic events.

[@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584]

Maybe to protect it from the advance of ice.

[@fiercest_calm]

Yes, I heard this too. Fascinating!

[@kolloduke3341]

12, OO0? I have heard that when they get to the base layer of the site then we could be looking at 13, 14 , even 15, ooo maybe even older ? Thanks for the vid pete ..

[@jamesridoni]

I think it date goes from 12k to 21k years ago

[@rubke2]

The bones found there are dated 12 000 years old. But how did hunter gatherers who had no decent tools build structures with 50 ton stones?

[@kevink.7597]

The Younger Dryas epoch is changing everything. All of those thousands and thousands of years of evolution as modern man all came to a crashing halt the day those impactors landed in Greenland, Cannada, the Northern US. The signs at the Carolina Bays tell us all we need to know and understand that the impacts nearly pushed the world into another mass extinction like the YK boundary. We just missed by a sliver. Our world is so much more than we know. Keep watching and see who figures out the polygonal megalithic construction for all of these stone constructions. That's when we will at least be able to tell how far they had advanced before the YD epoch. 400 feet lower sea levels change everything. Look at the East Coast of the US... it used to be where the continental shelf drops into the Atlantic. Google map the world and see where our ancient coast-lines used to be. The Atlantis myth is actually a legend. We are finding the truths. We just have to fight the entrenched academics with science and facts that can not be dismissed out of hand. The truth belongs to the world. Not just the countries that have ancient sites on their current lands. Egypt should be boycotted until such time that the grand poobah of antiquities is forced to grant permission for the drilling of holes in the great pyramid to determine the exit out of the top chamber. As described by Jean Peire Hudan... The exit is and always was on the wall next to the coffers right end as you look from the entrance. It forms ://kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6nSfneemK90fKM

[@davidfairbairn8]

Great job mate, first time watching and really enjoyed it. The whole story of who we are is wrong. How can we possibly know even one percent of what actually went on? Keep up the good work!

[@luciavalente1002]

So true. A wise observation

[@joeblack4436]

This was built basically just as ice sheets were receding after the last great Ice Age. I think it's pretty obvious that humanity emerged from the Ice Age already with fairly developed cultures. It is too bad writing was not really a thing yet, but these things are still fascinating to contemplate.

[@joncrane7661]

Yeah sitting around in a cave keeping warm would have been a perfect time to start codifying pictures on rocks. They must have been playing around instead

[@freefall9832]

Culture of survival, every morning a empty belly

[@aaronfranklin324]

@Taiwanlight Indeed! It's theorised that the invention of brewing led to the demise of advanced culture, possibility opioid activity of gluten containing grain based diet also. Allowing people to be made into submissive field peasants, and "civilisation": herding them into static communities. Under despotic rulers. And the shrinking of brain capacity and intelligence we see in the humans of today. I have a friend who works in underwater archaeology. They have investigated many sites up to 130m below present sea level. Underwater for 20000 years at least. No signs of the wave erosion of gradual sea level rise. Very often valuable items left in place making it clear rapid evacuation was necessary. Advanced metallurgy, ceramics, glassware etc. Our past was smashed No doubt is possible. The ice age was a much better time to live on most of the planet than today. And gardening in harmony with nature far superior to the recent era of stripmining the life from the biosphere for farming monocultures that sustain 1/1000 of the living biomass per hectare.

[@quentinfairchild2263]

Their writings were kept on disposable media. Those that came after and filled it in destroyed their history. The story of conquest. Conquer the people, destroy their history. If we, today, were to move those pillars around how would we do it? They had to have some similar methods to do it.

[@tesmith47]

Hunans in that area,not China and Africa

[@ZiggyDan]

Reminds of the Maltese temples. Even the carvings are similar. There is a stone pillar at Ggantija on-site Museum with a snake symbol carved into the side.

[@ix-Xafra]

I like the theory of the destruction of the Maltese temples due to a cataclysmic event possibly the great flood when Gibralta broke open and flooded what is now the mediterranean. Excuse spelling please. It's late...

[@samanthaqiu3416]

Wonder if the same acoustic resonant bands could be inferred from the wall geometry

[@leannedavies6163]

You should be proud of your work, unbiased and well presented research. I would loved to have been a fly on the wall, when the mainstream received the confirmed dates.

[@BK-tx8yj]

In the video they said the three circles were exactly 63 feet apart creating a triangle. 63 feet =21 yards The number 21 is the 8 number in the Fibonacci sequence. For those who don't know. The Fibonacci Sequence can be found in flowers, plants, and science. This information makes the distance even more notable. This could be evidence of advanced mathematical skills and understanding of nature. This high level understanding of nature could explain why images of animals are placed as decorations on the stones.

[@chrispetritsch4959]

So,clearly mankind goes back alot further than we thought.

[@kirkjohnson9353]

Worth mentioning that the site was intentionally filled in with dirt and stones. It boggles my mind that people would go to that much trouble and then cover it over. It may have been covered by later peoples but that would still be amazing and quite a mystery.

[@stevenmortelmans2877]

Houses have been found near the location of the 'religious area', but they are separated from it by a terrace. Furthermore evidence of roofing has been found, which suggests that these structure were covered. This, together with the narrow entrance to the monuments resembles a cave. One of the most interesting things about studying archaeology is the fact that even during the few years that it takes to reach a diploma, more and more data is recovered from sites all over the world, which advances our understanding of ancient humans. Certainly with new technology or older technology used in a new way in archaeology, previously overlooked evidence can be uncovered. Unfortunately, living in this era also means that more and more archaeological sites, however small, are destroyed day by day for our needs, without being properly recorded.

[@teresadudman505]

Relatively new to this channel. I can't get enough of it! All Hail, Pete! ❤

[@andrewheffel3565]

I read about this place! Civilization, and these monumental works, came before agriculture, not after. Imagine nomadic hunter gatherers cooperating to the point of being able to create such a place, and not for a place to live. Eleven thousand years ago. Amazing.

[@andrewheffel3565]

Yes, I read the same thing. They think it may be a religious temple, and not a place to live. Civilization before agriculture.

[@d.bcooper7819]

I like the hypothesis that Graham Hancock has on this find.

[@professormancaptain4210]

He's the reason I typed this topic into KZbin

[@tcufrogsfan45]

Just too little evidence to support his claims. Check out ‘Our Fake History’s’ episode on Graham. Used to love graham, but honestly he took an already cool site and tried to make it science fiction. This is such a cool site on its own, it’s like a missing link between the Paleolithic and Neolithic. Very interesting site on its own, without the absurd claims of a hyper advanced global civilization.

[@johnwalker1553]

@Lana JDL Am don't agree with some what Collins says. his work about the Denisovans is remarkable. wonder if rock art once is datable how old this stuff is really are.

[@cautious1343]

@Lana JDL is English a second language for you?

[@thecomprehensionhub4612]

@tcufrogsfan45 knowing how long the universe has been around, it's actually absurd to think that it is impossible for life to have reach such heightened levels of intelligence in any part of the universe. But you are subject to your own opinion. Colonialism has no borders , once humans mange to make distant space travel, we will repeat this exact process. Its quite the cycle

[@dd-ly4lx]

I really appreciate the information on Gobliki Tepe. I would like to throw out a theory about its origin. The round circular enclosures remind me of the circular stone “corrals” in Africa that were used to hold sheep, goats, cows. I suspect that Tepe began as a trading post, a giant Mercado Pulga (flea market) like the “wet” markets in China where people bring their catch; ducks, civet cats, frogs, bats, snakes, for food, or even spiders and scorpions for potions. The early religions, such as primitive people today, seem to have been ancestor worship or animal spirit reverence. This can be practiced at home. What would bring people from so many different tribes, with different ancestors, to travel far to one place to practice religion with so many different people? I suspect, more likely, this was to trade or barter. As time went by, this could have morphed into a religion, with what may have been wooden posts replaced by carved totems (as at Stonehenge) perhaps in reverence of the food they ate. Dig, dig, dig. The story is underground. Animal husbandry most likely began when early people found very young animals, thought they were cute, and brought them home. Any psychologist will tell you that if you take in a very young duck, puppy, piglet, goat or sheep, they will quickly “imprint” to humans, instead of their own species. In Australia, a family took in a baby orphaned sheep, fed it by bottle, and then, thinking it would go back to its own species, put it back out into pasture when it got older. Instead of joining the other sheep, it stayed as close as possible to the house and would bleat pitifully when ever it saw people come out. David Shepard, Assoc. Prof.

[@southernpaganprincess7739]

Makes soooooooo much sense. I think you nailed it.

[@purnimasrivastava3377]

Really fascinated by the Cambridge Archaeological Journal theory of hierarchized society at this stage. Thank you for explaining the site and the findings so wonderfully :)

[@TheLacedaemonian300]

You know I've been waiting for this one, Pete! Although it's unfortunate that you can't yet get out there, this video is a nice holdover till then. Keep doing what you do, I love it all. Your new channel is really great as well, everyone needs to check it out. You won't be disappointed. Take care, my friend.

[@veronicaroach3667]

He is not the first to report on this site - just another person making Utube videoss - the voice is VERY irritating. !

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

I can't get enough of videos about GT. I hope they continue to excavate while I'm still young enough to travel to the region. I'd like to travel with an educational travel class. Maybe even participate in a dig as a student volunteer. Professor Schmidt, you died too young. RIP

[@rr1309]

Without any single evidence. Videos keeps repeating “religious site “.

[@RossCampbell1992]

Its called that because of the symbols. It could just be a trading site. What we can all agree on is that it was a meeting point. The fact that ancient peoples seemed more 'religious' and worshipped nature (to an extent) is why we call ancient meeting sites religious sites.

[@robsan52]

@@RossCampbell1992 I would suggest your watching Physicist Martin Sweatmans interpretation. As an example of typical mis-management by archaeologists over the decades look no further that the Clovis research...or rather lack of research because in typical fashion, archaeologists tried to defend their childish theories of 'Clovis First' you find out that thousands of sites were only explored down to Clovis...and then stopped at that point because 'there can only be Clovis because we know there was no one else here prior to Clovis!' Thank God younger archaeologists are seeing the limited research by us 'boomers' and questioning our intellectual abilities. Remember: "science moves forward one funeral at a time".

[@veralenora7368]

"Religious site" is archeological shorthand for "we don't know".

[@duran3d]

Actually the evidence of being a ritualistic place is huge. Archaeologists are not as stupid as you want them to be.

[@nononono3421]

It's likely that the triangle's ends were the position of something else in earlier times, and later it developed into the temple we see now. Religious sites are often built on top of previous ones, like most chapels in Greece, often located in strange locations, were often built on top of former pagan shrines or temples.

[@saxonstacker1078]

This stuff is amazing. Live it. Thanks.

[@tome709]

It's a good video, thank you for making it. Billions of people in this world have not come across this information. Sad as it is. Keep up the good work!

[@gerbear1907]

Makes me pause and wonder what other ancient secrets await rediscovery...Thank You.

[@TheDragonflyTV]

10 minutes of rehashing old news before you get to a few minutes of new news.

[@jackleonardo2167]

Dragonfly.TV so, what's on your channel? Anything better?

[@koff41]

@@jackleonardo2167 there are other far better videos such as Ancient Architects , this was like homeopatchic vodka, nothing new. Here is some real breaking news kzbin.info/www/bejne/moKbkKR-j7eobNE

[@keepthechange2811]

@@koff41 theres a newer video by A architects showing the so called handbags as sunsets in relation to an old zodiac. Dates indicating the younger dryas event

[@billd.iniowa2263]

What I find astonishing is the fact that these carvings are all in relief. That is hard to do! Some planning and alot of hard work goes into a relief carving. It's very easy to carve a design into a material. But to make the carving raised up above the surface means you have to remove all the material around it. That isn't done by a casual nomad walking by. That takes time to execute and above all, plan.

[@alanscarboro1967]

Also takes great skill. And great skill takes practice, repetition. Where is the practice work?

[@betsybarnicle8016]

I believe a similar aged settlement was recently discovered nearby - NOT hunter-gatherer.

[@jasonhess7452]

Yet we are supposed to believe that it was made by primitive dudes in butt-flaps using copper tools who had no written language...

[@gazgano]

It is important to realise religion isn’t the same as spirituality

[@seeithappen1]

Religion has become the business of Spirituality

[@pasbert4812]

@Andrew Brent Not really, it's like, intelligence is not a prerequisite for wisdom . One can say that religion's goal is spirituality . There are many religious people that beat their wives Monday to Saturday only to confess on Sunday in church ,be absolved of their sin ,and start the whole process again on Monday. They are religious but not spiritual.

[@sherannaidoo2712]

Religion is simply an extension of culture.

[@Notmehimorthem]

Its all based on false assertions like life after death, God, miracles, supernatural powers etc

[@choimdachoim9491]

True. Religion and Religious are not the same thing at all. Religion gives you bricks to build a protective dwelling and tells you that these bricks are the answer. Religious tears down dwelling of bricks so you can see the real Universe and helps you realize that there are no answers...there is just More. Religion wraps it's arms around you and holds you down but Religious sets you free so you can fly. In this, my 72 year old conclusion, I equate Religious as Spiritual rather than following the edicts of a Religion. I have come to this conclusion through a life-time of very interesting and unusual experiences that began at the age of 2.

[@SyriusStarMultimedia]

The only thing more mysterious than Gobekli Tepe is saying Gobekli Tepe with a mysterious voice.

[@walterboudreau7791]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nancyM1313]

😉👍

[@Motivatedk9]

Tepeeeeeeeee

[@Sleepless4Life]

Lel... That intro reminded me of the muppets with their exagerated movements. 😆

[@piotrfraczek1001]

Ha ha ha ha good one

[@dizziechef9502]

Thank you for showing this. I’m studying this very thing.

[@edwilson7187]

You have to look at when in the movement of the north pole it was built. The pole has shifted 4 times in the last 100,000 years and if you look at the orientation you can get a better idea of when it was constructed. Some of the oldest builds were lined up with the pole position of 100,000 years ago so its really hard to tell what the oldest is. GT is an interesting site and would love to spend a day there though.

[@HedgeKnight170]

Love the content, Pete! Great work! 🙌🏽🤙🏽

[@johnmcclintock442]

Peter, I enjoyed your presentation on Gobekli Tepe. As I listen to Archeologist and Paleontologists speculate about the site it occurs to me why something like it would have been deliberately buried centuries ago. It’s no mystery and doesn’t require much imagination. Consider... A new religion comes to town. Like all religions, it strives to convert non-believers. The new overlords don't want to destroy the site because of what such provocation may cause, but instead simply decide to render the site inaccessible to those devotees who cling to the spiritual beliefs embodied at the site... What better way to render the desired transformation than simply rendering the site or shrine inaccessible? Out of sight, out of mind... This is my speculation, Peter. Feel free to run with it as your own. Let’s try to move the conversation about these extraordinary sites forward with a minimum of idle (or is that idol) chatter.

[@MrSridharMurthy]

Hi! I'm an Alien. I visited your planet 15,000 years ago on my way to the far end of your Milky Way. I spotted various animals and birds existing at the place of my Earth landing site that you now call Gobekli Tepe, so I left some markers in stone with drawing for my colleagues who would land on your planet a few centuries later just so they will know what to expect in the area of landing. These were actually our landing sites with some clues and markers. Cheers!

[@theviscount6496]

I think 🤔 you were under the influence of some substance when you wrote this ...

[@crhu319]

Thanks! #SeemsLegit!!

[@jaymanlivecom]

Love what you do mate, keep on at it!! if there's anything I can do to help, lmk!

[@wodenravens]

Dough. Send dough.

[@del_boy_trotter]

My Daughter worked on this project for 2 seasons, already (apparently!) the various Archi's all just about disagree with everyone else's theory's! She claims that _the 'Religious' theory is always the answer_ when, in truth, nobody has a clue! The two people she worked alongside came out with some pretty 'sound' evidence regarding the age, she said that one claimed a date as far back as 187,000BC and another, claimed 229,000 BC! Both, to be fair, claimed a fairly large margin of error, however, she claimed both evidences were sound and both _laughed at the existing 11,000 year claim!_ Sadly, after a fairly 'robust' set of arguments, herself and both the guys lost their privileges and were removed from the dig! Nobody dares to upset the 'leading' Archaeologists and, despite the evidence for a real vast age, (which, she concedes may even yet be upwards of 300,00+ years!) they have been banned and told, _that if they try to publicise their findings, their Uni's could lose the large funding(s) they have!_ She also claims the same with Egypt, if anyone departs from the established 'story' _(enforced by the idiotic Hawass!)_ then visiting privileges are also revoked! To be fair, as she says, the evidence for power tools in Egypt and many other dig-areas, is _now beyond question but, nobody dares to move away from the long-established bullshit!!_

[@chemartin3223]

Wow that's incredible!!

[@johnwalker1553]

It's in my opinion older too, according to several scientists there was nothing activity in the neolithic. the c-14 method is only able to test material which is laying around the ground between the pillars. so this hunter wich draw on the wild boar bone was obviously not the builder. it only gives a hint it was not bury, around 12.000 BC. so it can be much older. there is a upcoming theory, about the Denisovan.

[@maxpower7774]

Ah, nothing like entrenched dogma and personal agendas to advance the discoveries of the science world!

[@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301]

@@maxpower7774, Nice ironic comment . . .

[@ksamaddar]

The so called scientific methods to estimate age of stone structures are at very infant stage (carbon dating or c14 test is for organic, that too with widely varying results). On the other side, computer models are just another mumbo-jambo to fool people with jargons and complex meaningless formulas with thousands of silent but dubious assumptions. It is not only in history but in all sphere of research, people feel comfortable and safe with incremental knowledge. Any radical discoveries that challnged the norms were always faced with resistance, sometime violent too.

[@alisonmercer5723]

I’m going next month, I can’t wait to experience it❤️thanks for your presentation🌈

[@terryseiber970]

I hope one day mainstream archaeology can get its head out if it's arse and then maybe we can figure out what our real history is.

[@J-Mac8]

Soooo you’re trying to tell me they couldn’t figure out how to farm but could do elaborate stonework! Yea, I think you guys really nailed it on what this community was up to.

[@Scrublord96]

Agriculture actually starts popping up around that area about the same time. It's very likely it's a transfer of knowledge from an as yet discovered earlier civilization

[@davidbridges3292]

Hi there 🙂. There's a few issues regarding this site that I've haven't been explained to me in a satisfactory way. The idea of using sledges to move 40,000 lbs stones up grade to Gobekli Tepe doesn't sound likely to me. Such sledges would have to be designed and constructed with a level of precision and employed with a level of skill unlikely to have been available at the period.

[@kwgm8578]

A nice job with limited resources, Pete. Thank you for your interest, your devotion to evidence, and your effort. Most of all, thank you for using the word 'epic' appropriately. (It's a KZbin first. You should get an award or something...) All the best.

[@user-sq9gr8qu4l]

Gobekli tepe indicates an advanced ancient lost civilisation and not just hunter-gatherers. Thank you for the new information. I was glad to hear the excavations reached up to 10% cause for years it was stucked to 5%. Glad to hear progress is being made to the site. Its for sure one of the most important sites at the time being considering our past and the information we can learn from it. Just found this channel and already subscribed without a second thought. Thank you so much!

[@froggystyle642]

Please explain what you mean by "advanced ancient lost civilization". Thanks.

[@AmrodOfDale]

As always, your content is absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing your research on this amazing historical site. Regarding more content, Bright Inside made a video regarding Atlantis in Mauritania. Would it be possible to deepen the analysis or find civilizations close by in the theoretical time-frame? Cheers!

[@41alone]

When I first heard of this discovery I seem to remember some article stated that the sight had been covered over on purpose not a small task. If true that would be as interesting as the site its self.

[@d.theman6945]

Thank you for the amazing video!

[@OLDGRIZZ]

Hello, I stumbled across your channel today, looking forward to more of your great shows. Thankyou. For all your hard work.

[@erichtomanek4739]

In reference to the equalatrial triangle of standing stones: What were the positions of the stars during the period of time the complex was built? I wonder what 3 constellations are pointed to.

[@thewitchfindergeneral81]

1:38 using that firestorm to represent 2020, very accurate

[@zbigniewdzwonkowski3536]

T=20, T=20.... two T-shaped stones in the middle of the site... for 20/20 ?...

[@sabatino1977]

@@zbigniewdzwonkowski3536 - I hope you're joking. T-20 only applies to our modern alphabet, which would most definitely have not been known at the time.

[@cautious1343]

Netflix also has a 5 part series titled the pyramid code. Good stuff!

[@sabatino1977]

CAUTIOUS1 : let me guess.... aliens.

[@davidmacaart953]

Your videos are awesome man, voices of the past too, your and your brother are doing fantastic work.

[@draghynmystress]

I come from a hunter-gatherer culture. We still partially live that way amongst our houses and cars. Just because the people at Gobleki Tepe were hunterer-gatherers does not mean that they didn't petition their gods for good hunts, a good picking. Some of our hunters still practice things that were done 200-300 years ago before a hunt. Two of those things being prayers and fasting for several days prior to the hunt.

[@andywomack3414]

Interesting subject, thanks for the vid. I am interested on the effects that climate and landscape has on civilizations, especially during the transition to farming that started about 8,000 years ago, about the same time that post Younger-Dryas climate stopped warming and started cooling. This lead to a slowing of the rate of sea level rise and the return of permanent sea ice on the Arctic Ocean. Are you a challenge to the established academic order? If one wants the knowledge one no longer need attend college classes. It's a shame and a loss for colleges and universities to become little more than credential factories issuing costly tickets into corporate and institutional hierarchies.

[@billd.iniowa2263]

Anybody see the "hand bags" at 12:30 on the top of the stone? They look alot like the ones found in Sumerian works.

[@lorettamazzuchin8894]

Yes what are those?

[@jeffcook2570]

Nobody knows what they are but they have been found very similarly depicted in many ancient cultures. www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/what-mysterious-handbag-seen-ancient-carvings-across-cultures-and-021191

[@bishopandcompany7337]

@@jeffcook2570 i think we can all agree when i said , world a cultures where much more advanced back in the day and modern academics don't acknowledge it. Morever its pretty clear these world civilizations were connected in some form. I believe we are on the road to finding prehistoric (pre dating 6,000 years ago) antiquity , or in other words lost ancient high civilization.

[@briancarter3704]

@@lorettamazzuchin8894 status symbol or some kind of enhancement drugs??

[@alexstewart9747]

They are in South America too. This was a global civilisation without doubt.

[@johnhenke6475]

Thank you for your work. I really love to learn where we came from.

[@deborahromilly2766]

Amazing thank you Pete!

[@alphalunamare]

I think a mountain is being built out of a molehill with regard to the 'triangle of centres'. It could be just coincidence or perhaps more accurately: the specific way the Israeli Team decided algorithmically to define the positions of each centre. A 'folly' of a conclusion (folly in the victorian architectural sense) could lead to false assumptions about original design, if any.

[@secularstones]

There is no "central pillar" of the sort mentioned that I am aware of. A point between them, of the sort shown at 11:50 seems arbitrary.

[@futureinventor]

@Nick Nack A developing story about how our world history is that it is politically driven. (Not news for you I am sure). We need an independent source for funding all work considering building our understanding of our world. Where can I find people of this intention? I might be able to help.

[@paavobergmann4920]

Exactly. Also a plausibility argument: If you were to built a new temple next to an older one, wouldn´t you try to line them up, to make it look nicer?

[@2014andBeyonD]

Why in Gods name must it always be a temple? Always religious?

[@alphalunamare]

..because of the limitations of people's imaginations? :-)

[@Todmeinerlust]

I would say manipulation of information. This civilization are far more older than they presume as every other we have learned. This is the way they get to hide true information to us. They usually state that the people who lived there just used to eat, pray, piled some stones and made some carving on it. Things goes deeper than we think.

[@joncrane7661]

I agree. To be fair, all that's left to speculate about is stones and some tools. If a tone was there during those times, please speak out!

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

It must have been a petrol station.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

It was a sacred Pot Noodle stand

[@jimmystrange1]

Extremely interesting!Thank you!

[@rosebryce3939]

Fantastic! Fascinating! Breathtaking!

[@curiousworld7912]

Thank you - the more we understand just how long people have been forming cultures, the more interesting we as a species become. At least to me. :)

[@phdtobe]

Schmidt’s reinvestigation of this site is a great example of the benefit of “fresh eyes” examining a mystery.

[@edyiefeig8185]

This was very interesting. Thanks for the work you do.

[@robertharlton3850]

Thank You!

[@disrxt]

Relatively new to the channel, wondering if you've covered the Mound Builder culture of North America? Would love to see a History Time video on it.

[@Merovigne]

Shell mounds? They can be found on the west coast the ones that have not been paved over with parking lots.

[@Janizzary]

0:44 when Santa comes to the wrong village

[@steelworking1143]

I saw that. Thought I was seeing things

[@mikepowell7301]

Omar Attia I was thinking “How the Grinch Stole Gobekli Tepe”

[@cameronidk2]

enjoyed thoroughly

[@CharliefromAussieland]

Greetings from Brisbane, Australia!!!... Truly, AWESOME video and investigation work. Congratulations.

[@JeremyDahl]

0:42 depicts the ancient battle of the natives versus the tyrannical army of santa claus

[@bwalsh1105]

I knew he existed !!!!

[@gunnerb3874]

I know this an older post but well done and great presentation of the subject at hand. ATM with these monoliths popping up all over the planet I wanted to go threw posts of ancient structures and carvings/ Glyfs to try and see if I can find anything in matching them. Some of these monoliths that have been appearing threw out are being faked by attention getters which dampens authentic one. Anyways thanks for a well done post...

[@grimmportents8951]

"but now in 2020..." *cut to clip of out of control fire* Standing ovation for you sir.

[@leonordeaguiar9922]

Wonderful work Thank you