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From where he stands, he can see four circles of large, T-shaped stone pillars arranged around two even larger monoliths — some five metres tall — that tower over the circles. Many of the forty-odd pillars are decorated with exquisite relief carvings depicting a lush landscape populated by wild boars, birds, reptiles, and lions. The level of representation becomes even more breathtaking in the context of the site’s age; the various layers were created somewhere between 7500 and 10,000 BC, according to carbon dating done by Schmidt. That’s before the invention of the wheel.
It is currently considered the oldest known shrine or temple complex in the world, and the planet's oldest known example of mounumental architecture.
After 8000 BC, the site was abandoned and purposefully covered up with soil.
The thesis is this. Historians have long wondered if the Eden story is a folk memory, an allegory of the move from hunter-gathering to farming. Seen in this way, the Eden story describes how we moved from a life of relative leisure - literally picking fruit from the trees - to a harsher existence of ploughing and reaping.
Dilmun is also described in the epic story of Enki and Ninhursag as the site at which the Creation occurred. Ninlil, the Sumerian goddess of air and south wind had her home in Dilmun. It is also featured in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and is one of the sites that some theorists have proposed as the true location of the Garden of Eden.
originally posted by banyan even if that place was what the bible calls the garden of eden, would it really offer up much validity to the claims of said book?
originally posted by ThePiemaker looking at that sculpture I can certainly see that figure holding a round object in it's appendage representing the serpent tempting adam and eve with the forbidden fruit.
Originally posted by ThePiemaker
looking at that sculpture I can certainly see that figure holding a round object in it's appendage representing the serpent tempting adam and eve with the forbidden fruit.
Originally posted by mojo4sale
What i found fascinating though was why they would bury the whole thing under tons of soil after they decide not to use the site again.
Originally posted by Essan
Originally posted by mojo4sale
What i found fascinating though was why they would bury the whole thing under tons of soil after they decide not to use the site again.
Well, we bury dead people. Why not dead religious centers?
[edit on 14-2-2008 by Essan]
Originally posted by Wildbob77
I'd love it if someone has the time to find some links to sites that have pictures of this site.
I've found a few but the pictures were very limited.