mojo
02-23-2008, 09:25 PM
Have archaeologists found The Garden of Eden at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey?
www.archaeologynews.org (http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=261596&Title=Digging%20for%20Paradise)
From where he stands, he can see four circles of large, T-shaped stone pillars arranged around two even larger monoliths — some five metres tall — that tower over the circles. Many of the forty-odd pillars are decorated with exquisite relief carvings depicting a lush landscape populated by wild boars, birds, reptiles, and lions. The level of representation becomes even more breathtaking in the context of the site’s age; the various layers were created somewhere between 7500 and 10,000 BC, according to carbon dating done by Schmidt. That’s before the invention of the wheel.
Göbekli Tepe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe)
It is currently considered the oldest known shrine or temple complex in the world, and the planet's oldest known example of mounumental architecture.
After 8000 BC, the site was abandoned and purposefully covered up with soil.
Why did they go to the trouble of covering it up?
More on the dig (http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?menuID=2&subID=1007)
The thesis is this. Historians have long wondered if the Eden story is a folk memory, an allegory of the move from hunter-gathering to farming. Seen in this way, the Eden story describes how we moved from a life of relative leisure - literally picking fruit from the trees - to a harsher existence of ploughing and reaping.
Picture of one of the sculpted pillars.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/mojo4sale/eden.jpg
Some of the other claims as to the location of the Garden of Eden include, other parts of Mesopotamia, Africa and the Persian gulf.
Garden of Eden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_eden)
Dilmun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun), also has been linked to the Garden of Eden story.
Dilmun is also described in the epic story of Enki and Ninhursag as the site at which the Creation occurred. Ninlil, the Sumerian goddess of air and south wind had her home in Dilmun. It is also featured in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and is one of the sites that some theorists have proposed as the true location of the Garden of Eden.
Whether it is Eden or not its a fascinating link between the move from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to agriculture.
mojo
www.archaeologynews.org (http://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=261596&Title=Digging%20for%20Paradise)
From where he stands, he can see four circles of large, T-shaped stone pillars arranged around two even larger monoliths — some five metres tall — that tower over the circles. Many of the forty-odd pillars are decorated with exquisite relief carvings depicting a lush landscape populated by wild boars, birds, reptiles, and lions. The level of representation becomes even more breathtaking in the context of the site’s age; the various layers were created somewhere between 7500 and 10,000 BC, according to carbon dating done by Schmidt. That’s before the invention of the wheel.
Göbekli Tepe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe)
It is currently considered the oldest known shrine or temple complex in the world, and the planet's oldest known example of mounumental architecture.
After 8000 BC, the site was abandoned and purposefully covered up with soil.
Why did they go to the trouble of covering it up?
More on the dig (http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?menuID=2&subID=1007)
The thesis is this. Historians have long wondered if the Eden story is a folk memory, an allegory of the move from hunter-gathering to farming. Seen in this way, the Eden story describes how we moved from a life of relative leisure - literally picking fruit from the trees - to a harsher existence of ploughing and reaping.
Picture of one of the sculpted pillars.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/mojo4sale/eden.jpg
Some of the other claims as to the location of the Garden of Eden include, other parts of Mesopotamia, Africa and the Persian gulf.
Garden of Eden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_eden)
Dilmun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun), also has been linked to the Garden of Eden story.
Dilmun is also described in the epic story of Enki and Ninhursag as the site at which the Creation occurred. Ninlil, the Sumerian goddess of air and south wind had her home in Dilmun. It is also featured in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and is one of the sites that some theorists have proposed as the true location of the Garden of Eden.
Whether it is Eden or not its a fascinating link between the move from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to agriculture.
mojo