Tuesday, February 1, 2011

"World's Oldest Temple"

Gobleki Tepe (Neolithic religious site in Turkey)
Article from Zaman about this site. (Comments suggest that the original picture published with the article was wrong, but I think it has been corrected.)
There have been other stories about this really cool, staggeringly old site:
http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=3
The place is often touted as "the world's oldest temple."

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