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Let's guess they carbonfabricated dated it. Oh hail the mighty scientists who can date this by their flawed science.
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Its probably a lot older.I cant wait until it is all excavated.The GPR shows many more temples buried beneath the sand.This was built over time with skilled hands,not caveman.
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What makes you think "cavemen" weren't skilled? besides the term cavemen is generally applied to people living long before the agricultural revolution. These ruins appear to be from the transition era towards agriculture.

They lacked a lot of scientific ideas (such as wheels, steel etc.) we take for granted nowadays but I doubt they were stupid or unskilled.
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scrolling this the word 'DELUGE' is offered
up more than once or twice as a means of wiping
out this or that civilisation..and yet
what exactly was it ..if it occurred in the past?

Isnt it more likely that it was a mega wave
or tsunami the likes of which none of us
can imagine..?
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sometimes it is a giant wave of time -- a tsunami of time
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scrolling this the word 'DELUGE' is offered
up more than once or twice as a means of wiping
out this or that civilisation..and yet
what exactly was it ..if it occurred in the past?

Isnt it more likely that it was a mega wave
or tsunami the likes of which none of us
can imagine..?
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"The floodgates of Heaven were opened and the foundations of Earth were broken apart. The surrounding waters poured over the land and broke upon the mountains. The storehouses of the winds burst their bolts asunder, so storms and whirlwinds were loosed, to hurl themselves upon the Earth. In the seething waters and howling gales all buildings were destroyed, trees were uprooted and mountains cast down. There was a time of great heat, then came a time of bitter cold. The waves over the waters did not rise and fall but seethed and swirled, there was an awful sound above."
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Could also be the result of a fucked up water landing by a bigger sized space ship, (or UFO if you will), cause the pilot was drunk or passed out.
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Let's guess they carbonfabricated dated it. Oh hail the mighty scientists who can date this by their flawed science.
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Its probably a lot older.I cant wait until it is all excavated.The GPR shows many more temples buried beneath the sand.This was built over time with skilled hands,not caveman.
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What makes you think "cavemen" weren't skilled? besides the term cavemen is generally applied to people living long before the agricultural revolution. These ruins appear to be from the transition era towards agriculture.

They lacked a lot of scientific ideas (such as wheels, steel etc.) we take for granted nowadays but I doubt they were stupid or unskilled.
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they were us in a way....just like us -- questing

and had a sense of humor -- which somedays is the only 'safe haven' emotion for one's sanity -- maybe the most human quality there is
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It is impossible to dated anything before 5200 years when writing was invented and events we recorded.

"EVEYTIME" someone claims a date pass this time of writings is purely spectulation and absolutely cannot prove,all dating systems are worthless and cannot be trusted.

For those who throw out dates like a billion years are complete liars or fools and cannot be trusted.
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Your an uneducated idiot .
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No,

You are a sheep and a follower of fallible men.

Try to have an orgional thought for yourself sometime.

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I am wondering if this place isn't where the 'Watchers' came and took wives /schooled the women 'Daughters of men'.
There is a sculpture in the video that looks very differant from the others. The one with the black eyes and the chevrons across the chest.
It looks very much like examples of 'Anicent Aliens/Astronaughts, that I have seen theru the years.
With all the statues of women that they showed that have apparently been found there, it does make one wonder.
The story about the Watcher, or called by other names in differant texts than the Bible, all pretty much whisper of this 'co-mingling' happening.
Is this the place where it occured?
From the timeline, it sounds plausible to me.

Something else caught my eye too in that video showing the various carved stones there...
The stone with the 3 arches at the top.
It looks like each arch has been assigned an Animal to denote it.
Is this a depiction of the various Worlds that the Native American prophecies speak of...The Great Purification that has happened before the current 1 we know.?
Sure does look that way to me...like those arches are depicting 'Leaps of life', and the transformation that happens when the leaps occur.

The builders of this place were not just cavemen...I believe they were much more advanced than they are being credited as being.
I don't believe they were able to carve those stones, without using some sort of 'chisel' to do it.
From an artist's eye...there is no way all those details could have been put in there , simply using a harder stone to carve them.

I think they were errected by the reminanats from the Third World, the survivors of the great Change that happened last time we were in this part of Space.
Seeing how carbon dating has been shown to be not as reliable as we previously believed ( because Newton's work was found to not be correct. Everything does not decay at the same rate, all the time)....could very well be even earlier than what the Scientists know...maybe closer to 12-13,000 years old?
The same amount of time that passes between our orbit of the Galactic Center....crossing the Galactic Plane.

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I am usually not a self bumper but this needs to be seen.Wake up people.There have been advanced humans on this earth for far longer than we have been led to believe.This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Look into Michael Cremo,Graham Hancock.
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bump all you want, who cares
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Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey.

The reenactors are busloads of tourists—usually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses (white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no attention, the visitors straggle up the hill. When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's.

Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.

At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.


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Whilst i totally agree about the age of these temples, its total bullshit to suggest the pyramids are so new, and its also total bullshit to think that the pyramids were the frist things build in that region of egypt. It goes WAY back!
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I saw a documentary on this early in the year, a really interesting place to say the least.
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Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey.

The reenactors are busloads of tourists—usually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses (white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no attention, the visitors straggle up the hill. When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's.

Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.

At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.


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Whilst i totally agree about the age of these temples, its total bullshit to suggest the pyramids are so new, and its also total bullshit to think that the pyramids were the frist things build in that region of egypt. It goes WAY back!
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The pyramids are much older than you think, and no the Egyptians did not build them. I know, that is all I can say.
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in recent times we have seen how history
is conveniently rewritten by the victors..
iraq is a classic example the people
were dehumanized and demonized even before
the 2nd phase of the iraq war got under way..
the country was modern the people for the most
part highly educated yet prior to the war
they were referred to as no_racial_epithets_4_Us sand jockeys
and a lot worse.

history is always written by the victors.

much has therefore been hidden.
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Yeay!!!!!
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6000 years? chuckle oh really????? chuckle

they must think we are dingbats lol
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whatever a dingbat is :blush:
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Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey.

The reenactors are busloads of tourists—usually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses (white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no attention, the visitors straggle up the hill. When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's.

Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.

At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.


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Whilst i totally agree about the age of these temples, its total bullshit to suggest the pyramids are so new, and its also total bullshit to think that the pyramids were the frist things build in that region of egypt. It goes WAY back!
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The pyramids are much older than you think, and no the Egyptians did not build them. I know, that is all I can say.
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and ths Sphinx is even older..water erosion at base due to river fluctuations..

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ATLANTIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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why do they allegedly cancel Atlantis? because they werent $%&//()· ..there ..thats why!!???

and it hurts to recognize how insignificant one really is..

Im loving this

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It's another megalithic structure built by the survivors of Atlantis which has since had crappy additional stone buildings added to it. The Atlantean survivors built megalithic structures all over the world as they wanted the structures to last 12,000 years to warn people in our time of what they'd been through and what may be coming for us.
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You can't simply post the article and let the info stand on its own, Fubar, so you have to add "Fuck you history books".... what a jerk.
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The Bible makes it clear that there were super advanced pre-flood civilizations. These civilizations were pure evil, being led by the Nephilim, the sons of demons.
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I find the biggest mystery to be this:

Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building. The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically. As time went by, the pillars became smaller, simpler, and were mounted with less and less care. Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
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Atlantean civilization peaked just before the destruction of the city and the global flood... sites such as this would have been missionary sites constructed just prior to the destruction or just after, as the timeline fits very well with the city having been sunk around 10,000 BCE.

There are numerous examples of civilizations which had high physical and spiritual technology and petered out over time... one group, called the Merkabah Riders, represent a level of ritual and spiritual technology lost for 10,000 years or so...

This site most likely lost ritual significance as newer and more functional temple complexes arose in Egypt and Babylon proper. It's possible the last constructions were made by members of a defunk cult to the Atlanteans, who were worshipping the original builders of the site and imitating their practices with steadily less knowledge and skill.

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Sitchin talked about those settlements, apparently they would have been for the mining slaves of the Annunaki.
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Why do people have to bring comic book delusional human hating bullshit into every conversation...

Yes, every rock proves we are slaves to giant man eating lizards. Live that dream.
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Did E.T. build the pyramids?
Was there an Atlantis?
Was the pre-historic world
Much more technically advanced than it is today?

Perhaps

But it doesn't matter
Because even if those tall tales are true
You're still not gonna get the afterlife
You so desperately desire

And that is the only reason
You like to believe such tall tales
Because you think it'll improve the chances
Of the religion tale being true
You silly morans

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could this have anything to do with the biblical Tower of Babylon, and the Beast of Revelation?
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bump

Love articles like this, thanks op
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National Geographic screws it up though.They depict these cavemen with flint tools building these beautiful temples,buildings or whatever they were.Why can't they say"hey we do not know everything".We had advanced civilizations in the past.
The other crappy part of the article they did not touch on is how big the complex really is.Ground penetrating radar has shown there are at least 25 other large ring structures(if not more).

Well it's a good first baby step in the right direction.
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Yeah, with absolutely NO signs of habitation. So they claim these people walked quite a distance to only worship? Cut the blocks and transported them a long distance? Hhmmmm!
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Did E.T. build the pyramids?
Was there an Atlantis?
Was the pre-historic world
Much more technically advanced than it is today?

Perhaps

But it doesn't matter
Because even if those tall tales are true
You're still not gonna get the afterlife
You so desperately desire

And that is the only reason
You like to believe such tall tales
Because you think it'll improve the chances
Of the religion tale being true
You silly morans

chuckle
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What is your stake in them NOT being true?

I think this is perhaps a better question to ask those who follow the materialist religion of Atheism... why do you so desire your limits to be set by your five physical senses?

I think it is a way for you to stay safe in a complex and difficult to understand reality. hf

Stay safe, and know your atoms and molecules are taking very good care of your consciousness, physical reality will never fail you... I wonder why? lala
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Humanity in general needs a new word fro "History".

The current one was damaged beyond repair by clowns calling themselves "Historians". Clowns relying on a carbon dating technique that never worked.

I someone says "History" it makes me want to puke.
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Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey.

The reenactors are busloads of tourists—usually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses (white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no attention, the visitors straggle up the hill. When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's.

Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animals—a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.

At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.


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Whilst i totally agree about the age of these temples, its total bullshit to suggest the pyramids are so new, and its also total bullshit to think that the pyramids were the frist things build in that region of egypt. It goes WAY back!
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The pyramids are much older than you think, and no the Egyptians did not build them. I know, that is all I can say.
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and ths Sphinx is even older..water erosion at base due to river fluctuations..

the TRUTH will set us free cheer

ATLANTIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ah yes, you are on to it too. Perhaps not rivers, think oceans instead, much to behold, we are but ants or grains of sand if even that. Wait for the show, got a feeling it is coming soon.
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Fvcking amazing!
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Interesting!!!





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