Wow, a discovery of a temple that has two wierd sides to its story.

The fact that its construction is only complarible to that of stonehenge.

And the fact that it is old enough to be around at the biblical start of this universe/planet.

Amazing, thank you so much.

A great contribution

Cool, story, I didn't know about the belly button temples..

I don't have a normal one because I was born with all of my intestines out.. so it kinda looks like the star of david.. hence my name (David) ..

I'll have to research these temples a bit more! awesome.

What about those 40 artifacts they found in Africa dating back 2 million yrs?????

yeah the root name of lots of the big temples around the word is in some way 'the navel of the earth' which maybe if this IS eden, that is to say the place man grouped together before they ruined it by eating all the trees and moved away, then maybe it could have stayed in the myths of the cultures that covered the globe, maybe they had this idea they carried with them in stories of the temple that was the navel of the world, the place society began -where man kind was given the first true life, the conseptual desire to understand and control the world around it, maybe they rebuild the lost eden in their new settlement to their new design? that would account for them all being so similarly designed.

then again the root of the world navel could well be the same as the root for the word used to describe a meeting place or center of the community, being as how the navel is the meeting place between mother and child and the center of the belly this could make sense.

Seems like every time somebody thinks they have our history nailed down, something new is discovered that throws everything afoul. Maybe they ought to just keep quiet about when things started and keep digging. The next discovery is right around the corner.

Gobeki Tepe is certainly interesting but the site has already had its initial impact and history has already been re-written by its discoveries. The best news is there is more to come. The excavations have only been going on since 1994 and only a small fraction of the site has been uncovered.

The site was found originally in the mid sixties but grants couldn't be found until the mid 90 to do the digs.

More great stuff to come.

Well as we hurdle off topic

Many scientist say that groves on the Sphinx could have only been caused by many many years of rainfall.

Hans: And just as many - and probably more don't agree with that analysis and point to other possibilities

Last time there was enough rainfall to cause those grooves were around 10,000 BC.

Hans: Not quite that long ago, around 5,500-6,500 BC the Sahara began to dry out and neolithic hunter-gatherers and nomadic herders began to move out of the region, the 10,000 date comes up alot as it an important fringe belief date.

I've also heard a few scientists saying that our history just doesnt add up.

Hans: I believe if you check you'll find those, 'scientists' are mainly fringe writers.

That as a species we are suffering from amnesia about our past.

Hans: Yet another meme created by fringe writers

Who's to say how long we have been around for sure and what level of technology we had.

Hans: Well we could look at the evidence we have and make some informed and evidenced hypothesis - or heck we could just make up some stuff and believe it....your choice.

IF today 95% of the population died what would the world look like 10,000 years from now?

Probably much like today's world except being an archaeologist would be a wild ride as you'd have sites galore and chock full of all kinds of cool stuff.

As noted above we are going off topic so if you can turn this into something about Gobeki Tepe...that would be good.

It is amazing that such an old relic of our human civilization is found. That goes on to show that our ancient culture and society was far more sophisticated than we think. I am sure findings older than this will be unearthed.

Originally posted by thegreatone

IF today 95% of the population died what would the world look like 10,000 years from now?

No idea, but we would certainly leave an absolute feast of stuff for future archaeologists to dig up.

Don't forget the Indus Valley which dates the remains there at around 9000 years ago. This just adds more fuel to the fire that the world is older than 6000 years as per those that believe Bishop Usser's dating of the Earth by Who begat Who. Archaeology, you got to love it when they find new things and finding this temple in Göbekli Tepe, Turkey...cool!

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It doesnt matter what we find; they (the people in control) will keep history the same or try too for aslong as possible

It doesnt matter if we find Atlantis, Lemuria, or something that thats extremely old and debunks every religion and acount of history on the globe that info will not be told to the masses for anything.

Cool find, only more evidence that no matter what date gets espoused as 'the beginning' of civilization, it will eventually get pushed back.

I always associated the 'Navel' temples, with the Dan tien, or the energy centre of the body. The Dan tien is located around the stomach and navel, don't know why I always thought this, I suppose the 'whom' is a much better explanation.

Either way, good find

EMM