What ancient civilization really captures your imagination?
Look, no one knows their name, or if they even had one. No one knows where they came from, or where they went. No one knows how many of them there were, or exactly where they lived, but some 12,000 years ago a group of people came together and built a rather marvelous place called Gobekli Tepi...or at least, called that by us. These people lived so long ago that until this place was found, we had no clue that they were capable of something like this...we thought of hunter-gatherers. And actually, since there is no indication that Gobekli Tepi was every inhabited, they may have been hunter-gatherers who erected this as a place of worship, perhaps. Regardless of why, the when is astounding. As is the fact that they used only the most rudimentary tools. Good grief, the wheel hadn't even been thought of at that point!
This captures my imagination:
TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO! 6,000 years before Stonehenge. About 7,000 years before the first pyramids were built. It staggers me.
Look, no one knows their name, or if they even had one. No one knows where they came from, or where they went. No one knows how many of them there were, or exactly where they lived, but some 12,000 years ago a group of people came together and built a rather marvelous place called Gobekli Tepi...or at least, called that by us. These people lived so long ago that until this place was found, we had no clue that they were capable of something like this...we thought of hunter-gatherers. And actually, since there is no indication that Gobekli Tepi was every inhabited, they may have been hunter-gatherers who erected this as a place of worship, perhaps. Regardless of why, the when is astounding. As is the fact that they used only the most rudimentary tools. Good grief, the wheel hadn't even been thought of at that point!
This captures my imagination:
TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO! 6,000 years before Stonehenge. About 7,000 years before the first pyramids were built. It staggers me.