![]() ![]() Following an ancient cataclysm, survivors of an ancient civilization, few in numbers, may have taken refuge among hunter-gatherers and shared some of their knowledge with them, thus having had a hand in designing and building Göbekli Tepe. Hancock argued that Göbekli Tepe may be a clue to an advanced civilization that met its demise prior to its construction. At the heart of the ongoing debate is who built Göbekli Tepe and whether academia should rethink the antiquity of history and stop underestimating the cultural achievements and advancement of peoples who predated the esteemed ancient Greeks by millennia. Weighing in on the discussion was Randall Carlson, geological explorer, and renegade scholar. For several hours, bestselling author and journalist Graham Hancock traded barbs with materialist science writer and founder of The Skeptics Society, Michael Shermer, over the deeper significance of the Gö bekli Tepe find in Turkey. ![]() The Debate Over Who Built Göbekli TepeĪn episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast, featuring Graham Hancock, garnered more than 3.5 million views on its episode about Göbekli Tepe, since it aired in 2017. He instantly realized the site was extraordinary. More than thirty years later, in 1994, Schmidt was read a brief mention of the stone-littered hilltop in the University of Chicago researchers’ report, and he decided to go there himself. Smithsonian magazine reported that Göbekli Tepe was examined and dismissed by University of Chicago and Istanbul University anthropologists in the 1960s who visited the hill, saw broken slabs of limestone and concluded the mound was simply an abandoned medieval cemetery. Schmidt pointed to a cluster of great stone rings, one of which is 65 feet across, and said, “This is the first human-built holy place.” But is it? Schmidt’s conclusions are evidenced by the site’s massive carved stones, about 11,000 years old, that was - perhaps erroneously concluded by mainstream academia - crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. ![]() German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, who has been involved with the site for 25 years, is convinced that Goebekli Tepe is ground zero for the world’s oldest temple. ![]()
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