Our main purpose to travel Urfa was visiting the oldest settlement of Gobeklitepe which is a pre-historic site, built, roughly twelve thousand years ago, circa 10,000 BC.
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| Mysterious Stones of Gobeklitepe |
With no settlement or society to speak of, with farming still a far cry away, in a world of only roaming hunter-gatherers, the complexity and developed blueprints of these temples represented another enigma for archaeologists.
The site had been used for agriculture before the archaeological work started. Only numerous flint artefacts had been visible at the surface, but no architectural structures. All the monumental buildings, visible mainly in the excavation area at the southern slope, had been unveiled during the excavations.
The main features are the T-shaped megalithic pillars. Sometimes arms and hands are depicted on the pillars, which can be recognized as stylized anthropomorphic beings. There are always two in the centre of an enclosure. Important are the reliefs of the two central pillars depicting a net made of snakes above a ram and a vertical row of a bull,a fox and crane.
Archaeological and geophysical surveying could prove that the complete mound consists of similar stone age buildings, dating to 10th and 9th millennium BC.
Absolutely an amazing place which forces your imagination and destroys historical knowledge as you can not figure out how people done these structures thousands years before and what was the reason?
There are daily tours from Istanbul to visit Gobeklitepe , if you would like to see that amazing place you can check out www.turkeytourspecialist.com
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