Megalithic Origins : Ancient connections between Göbekli Tepe and Peru
Source: grahamhancock.com
At 6,500 years older than Stonehenge and 7,000 years before the pyramids were constructed, a cult megalithic complex sat atop the hills near current day Sanliurfa, in southeast Turkey.
Göbekli Tepe was flourishing an astonishing 12,000 - 14,000 years ago, and today, the preserved remains still exhibits high degrees of sophistication and megalithic engineering skill. Back in the 1990’s when Robert Schoch exclaimed that the Sphinx could be many thousands of years older than previously thought, he was ridiculed. Graham Hancock’s popular theories of an 12,000 year old Ice-age civilization were slammed. Now today, there stands a unique, and remarkably ancient complex that is shaking the foundations of science and history, awakening an interest in our human origins, and has been carbon-dated by German archaeologists to the end of the last ice-age. Game on.
In September 2013, I had the opportunity to go and see Göbekli Tepe for myself. I joined forces with authors Andrew Collins and Graham Hancock on a Megalithomania expedition around Turkey to investigate this enigmatic discovery. It was Graham’s first time there too, and will be documented in his forthcoming Book - ’Magicians of the Gods’. Graham was as astonished as I was. For such an old structure, the quality of stonework and abstract artistic skill, just seems like it should not exist. American archaeologist Peter Benedict first discovered something was going on there in 1963, noticing prehistoric flints all over the area. He also discovered some broken fragments of beautifully crafted T-shaped blocks with relief carvings on. However, due to the superior quality of the stonework, they were classified as Byzantium artifacts (1) . Interestingly one of the stones that is now on display in Urfa museum, looks conspicuously like one I had previously seen in Peru. In 1994 a german archaeologist, Klaus Schmidt, recognised the site as part of the ’pre-pottery neolithic’ culture because this style of carving was similar to a site he had worked at earlier - Nevalı Çori. A year later, excavations began, although the general public did not hear about it until the year 2000, when it was documented in a German magazine.
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Read the full article at: grahamhancock.com
Part 1: 12,000-Year-Old Gobekli Tepe - Is It Linked to the Star Deneb in the Cygnus Constellation?
Part 2: 12,000-Year-Old Gobekli Tepe - Was It A Soul Recycling Machine Linked to Deneb in the Cygnus Constellation?
Tune into Red Ice Radio:
Hugh Newman - Megalithomania(cs) & Megalithic Mesoamerica
Hugh Newman - Earth Grids, Earth Energy, Megaliths & Sacred Sites
Graham Hancock - Entangled, Supernatural, Shamanism & The Origins of Consciousness
Hugh Newman - Megalithic Sites of New England, Global Earth Energies & Lake Titicaca
Ross Hamilton, Jim Vieira & Hugh Newman - Giants, Mound Builders & Etheric Energy
John Anthony West & Laird Scranton - Göbekli Tepe, Egypt & The Dogon
Klaus Schmidt - Göbekli Tepe: The World’s Oldest Temple?
Robert Schoch - The Mystery of the Sphinx, Forgotten Civilization & Catastrophic Solar Outbursts
Andrew Collins - Giza’s Cave Underworld Update & The Cygnus Mystery Linked to Giza’s Underworld
