This is insane. Before the wheel, written language, pottery, or metallurgy we built this. How? Seven millennia before the Pyramids, 4,000 years before Stonehenge. Then for some unknown reason it was purposely buried. Why?

I find this amazing, this makes me want to find out how this was possible. Did we completely screw up human history and development? How did people who could not write or figure out the use of the wheel manage to move 20 ton rocks? How did they acquire the knowledge to mine them or make these relief carvings?

I am going to be doing some more reading. This seems impossible. Anyone else even aware this place existed?

National Geographic

Wikipedia

Good thing they weren't gluten free, eh?

Thanks for this, wow! Mind officially blown.

Great video, thank you for posting, skins.

I think we are guilty of believing that our ancient ancestors were less intelligent than we are. I imagine that evolution theory colors this notion. I know I am guilty of looking at our forebears in this manner.

If the dating is correct, and we may never know for sure, one thing this discovery does is shift some weight back to the idea that the cradle of mankind is central-western Asia.



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I think we are guilty of believing that our ancient ancestors were less intelligent than we are. I imagine that evolution theory colors this notion. I know I am guilty of looking at our forebears in this manner.


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Very good point!

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Fascinating! I see hours of fun/research in my future. Thanks for posting.

Don't laugh too much, but Ancient Aliens had a segment on this.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:I think we are guilty of believing that our ancient ancestors were less intelligent than we are. I imagine that evolution theory colors this notion. I know I am guilty of looking at our forebears in this manner.

That's probably true for most of us. We equate modern knowledge to intelligence. I'm not sure that evolution really factors in very much over such a short span of time. It's probably got more to do with migration and expanding the knowledge base. Still, those early people had the capacity to recognize what they needed to and learn from it.

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Don't laugh too much, but Ancient Aliens had a segment on this.

Yes, and IIRC, it was one of the more objective episodes. The show was actually decently interesting the first season or two.

Back on topic, I'm in the camp that thinks we have forgotten one hell of a lot of important things from our past rather than were helped by ET. However, if I find I'm wrong about that I won't be astonished.

I think we know a lot less about our distant past than we think we do.

Imagine if our generation left no written word and thousands of years from now someone tried to reconstruct our society based on nothing but fossilized objects. I'm sure their attempts would be hilarious to us.

Thanks for posting! Very interesting!

Wouldn't ya like a crack at the books of the Ancient Library of Alexandria?

Yup, this turns a lot of peoples' beliefs onto their collective ears. They say this every time a new wrinkle is unearthed.

It's a damned significant find, that's for certain. But I have to wonder what else is buried out there on this vast earth. Or sunk in its' oceans for that matter. I sometimes like to fantasize that you can find these things out for what they are and where they fit in the big picture, after you die.

Imagine what they'll dig up tomorrow?

It's not out of the realm to consider that many civilizations rose and fell creating, and then taking to the grave, technology to which we have given credit to later civilizations for inventing. To say this particular civilization did all this without this knowledge or that widget is pure speculation based on a somewhat piecemeal understanding of the shreds of ancient history that we actually know about.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster: Imagine if our generation left no written word and thousands of years from now someone tried to reconstruct our society based on nothing but fossilized objects. I'm sure their attempts would be hilarious to us.

http://sultanaeducation.org/wp...steries-Macaulay.pdf

I remember reading this satire piece years ago and i believe that yes, our modern world would be misinterpreted.

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I was thinking more along these lines....



Seriously though, this is exciting to me. How is it we have the timeline of human development/innovation so wrong? How many times have there been technologically advanced civilizations that came and went *before* written history?

^^^ Can someone enlighten me where these two images came from? Was the first Planet of the Apes?

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^^^ Can someone enlighten me where these two images came from? Was the first Planet of the Apes?

2001: A Space Odyssey

And Stargate