The oldest megalithic site in the world, Gobekli Tepe 11,500 years old.

This site is a real shocker if you are up to date on your history. It nearly doubles the age of the first known civilization, the Sumerians. Its actually located not to far from Mesopotamia, in Turkey. This structure was discovered in 1996 by a german Archaeologists, named Klaus Schmidt; who is now dead.

Klaus Schmidt

Gobekli tepe means potbelly hill in Turkish. After the construction someone intentionally buried it with tons of lose material, sometime around 8000 BCE or 10,000 years ago. This caused the site to be very well preserved, and protected from the elements. Who knows what would be left after this vast amount of time had they not done so?

The site contains 20 circles all formed by T shaped pillars, some weighing up to 50 tons and standing 20 feet high. There are over 200 pillars in total. So far there has only been 5 percent of the entire site uncovered in the last 20 years.

There was tremendous effort put into this place, with intricate attention to detail. For example these pillars here.

Somehow they managed to achieve all of this over 5,000 years before written language and civilization. Main stream science will have you believe that this isn't possible because we were not advanced enough at the time it was built. That we hadn't yet broke away from living in small simple sects of hunter gatherer individuals.

This place seems to have been very important to whoever covered it up, in an attempt to preserve it, in the very distant past. I can't wait for the time we finally understand this place and actually gets some of it uncovered. Only 5 percent people!

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Hahaha I think it was definitely humans.

We just don't give ourselves enough credit.

The amount of gravel covering the site, a feat in itself, let alone its age and sophistication boogles my mind regarding the revision of human history. I want to visit this place soooooo bad!

Yeah I know, so much in fact the local peoples had no idea it was even there. It just looked like a massive hill. They just knew it as "potbelly hill" until Klaus came around and uncovered it. They definitely need to get on the ball and revise a shit load of history. Man it would be a dream come true to see this place in person.

Let's go! I'd love to work there sifting dirt for a few months. There are tons of ancient sites around the world, especially in China that have huge pyramids covered up as if to hide them. A bunch of dusty old professors would lose their place in history if we had to revise human sociological history...hehe.

I would love to! Getting my hands dirty at an ancient site? Count me in!
Yeah China is littered with sites, they claim the big sites(like all the emperors burials) are left alone out of respect for their ancestors. I've heard about a lot of crazy legends and written history about whats inside China's pyramids. I hope one day we get a view inside. Yeah about the professors, they would have to openly admit they were wrong, and that's hard for people to do.

Well if we become Steemit millionaires let's go! That's what I was going to do with my earnings anyways....I first want to visit Mongolia ... There are some Vajrayana Rinpoches I want to see and camp on the steppes, listen to throat singers around the camp fire and get drunk on barley wine....hehe

Hahaha Sounds like a plan! Wow, that would be an incredible experience! I hope to get that opportunity one day.
Thanks for commenting by the way. Its nice to see another Archaeology fan.