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SourceStanding on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed.
To me the most interesting thing about this is that it means that religon (or at least some sort of organized ritual) predates the starts of civilization as we know it. The starts of civilization, things like agriculture, livestock, and pottery all follow this temple (and are in the immediate area) by a few hundred years. This has some pretty far reaching implications.
NO 2012 APOCALYPSE!
That's pretty fucking cool.
Videos from the temple! (Their native language sounds so ancient!)
"Question the world man... I know the meaning of everything right now... it's like I can touch god." - bbobb the ggreatt
Who ever said the pyramids came first?
Mrs. pyramid?
"Question the world man... I know the meaning of everything right now... it's like I can touch god." - bbobb the ggreatt
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Lady Pyramids, IMO.
hope they didn't find any leathery eggs inside
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