Göbekli Tepe - The First Temple On Earth? 10,000 BC // Ancient History Documentary

At Gobeclete, gods and mortals once walked the earth. So the old stories must surely once have told. [Music] of the rituals, festivals, and sacrifices of those ancient days. We can say little now for certain. Its people are gone. Deities cast into the void. [Music] What truly happened there, we will likely never know.

[Music] And yet, since its rediscovery by the wider world in the 1990s, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians have done their best to weave together a flimsy shell of a story to do justice to that lowrising mound in the plains outside of Earth. [Music] Utilizing a vast array of data and techniques to mesh together a very basic

idea of what the place was and who its builders had been. [Music] More outlandish commenters go further, embellishing the flimsy archaeological data set with their own new age religious leanings and preconceived ideas. [Music] turning concrete evidence of wild grasses, wild grains, and as yet still undomemesticated prey animals into landing grounds for aliens or the

biblical garden of Eden, wonderfully complex, genuine huntergatherer ancestors into ancient super civilizations. [Music] In reality, still for the most part, Gobeclete's secrets remain hidden. [Music] Unlike the other most famous discoveries in archaeological history like Tuton Carmoon's tomb or the royal burial grounds of here there is very little to go on little contemporary evidence to

corroborate what happened to explain those 200 or so monoliths arrayed into 20 megalithic enclosures. Some standing well over 5 m high, their surfaces coated in bizarre, even nightmarish creatures. Written accounts wouldn't exist for more than 5,000 years to come.