12,000-Year-Old Karahantepe REVEALED to the World

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12,000-Year-Old Karahantepe REVEALED to the World | Ancient Architects



Many of you will have seen the recent news coming out of Turkey, concerning Karahan Tepe, the sister site of the now world famous and breathtaking megalithic wonder of Gobekli Tepe.

The latter site is known for its ornately carved T-shaped pillars, its huge size and its truly ancient date of 11,500 to 10,000 or so years ago. Karahan Tepe has been known about for a number of years, dates to a very similar time period, maybe much older according to some reports, and also has T-shaped pillars, but now we know there are also incredible human sculptures.

Karahan Tepe is situated in a region designated Tas Tepeler, meaning Stone Hills, and covers an area of 124 miles or 200 kilometres from one end to the other. There are 12 main sites in Tas Tepeler and 7 of these 12 are now being excavated.

Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister formally introduced Karahan Tepe to the world for the first time at the end of September. The site is a 46km drive from the city of Sanliurfa and was first discovered in 1997. To date, more than 250 T-shaped megaliths have been found at the site, a number of which have animal depictions, but its the three-dimensional human sculptures and the abundance of human heads that are capturing everyone’s imagination.

Watch this video to learn more about this fascinating and little-known ancient site, which is set to re-write the history of early human civilisation.

All images are taken from Google Images and the below sources for educational purposes only.

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Just think what else is under ground ?

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Harbetsuvan Tepesi: 11,000-Year-Old Satellite Cult Centre of Karahantepe

Many of you will have seen my last video on the incredible archaeological site of Karahantepe, which was formally revealed to the world at the end of September, and is set to open to tourists next year.

Gobekli Tepe and Karahantepe are part of what Turkish officials are now called Tas Tepeler, meaning Stone Hills, 12 sites that form one enormous archaeological project for Turkish authorities, all of which date to this early Pre-Pottery Neolithic era of Ancient Anatolian history.

After making my last video, I decided to take a look at some of the lesser-known Tas Tepeler sites. Moving 7km southwest of Karahantepe, we have a site called Harbetsuvan Tepesi, which experts call a small-scale satellite settlement or cult centre. It’s not as spectacular as Gobekli Tepe or Karahantepe, but it is one of the 12 most important sites in the region.

Harbetsuvan Tepesi has been looted in antiquity but has been carefully excavated in the past few years and in this video we take a look at one of the 12 most important Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites from Ancient Anatolia aka modern-day Turkey.

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Sefer Tepe: A Gobekli Tepe-Inspired, 11,000-Year-Old Site in Turkey

My last two videos have focused on two of the 12 sites that make up the Tas tapeler archaeological project in Turkey, 12 sites around the Haran Plain that date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic era of Ancient Anatolia, between 12,000 and 9,000 years ago.

I next decided to travel east from Karahantepe to see what I could find out about Sefertepe, one of the lesser-known sites of the twelve. I must say that pictures from this site are few and far between, so apologies if this video is not visually appealing, but I will give you the information that’s available.

Sefer Tepe was discovered in 2003, another Pre-Pottery Neolithic site located 72 km east of Sanliurfa. It’s a small, broad and shallow limestone mound at 700 m altitude above sea level, and the settlement is build directly onto the bedrock and covers an area of 1,000 square metres.

When experts first surveyed the land, 16 T-shaped pillars were found in-situ, and of course the link was made to Gobeli Tepe. Watch this video to learn more about this truly ancient site and how it links to other Tas Tepeler sites in Turkey.

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Unique T-Shaped Pillar Decoration at Kurt Tepesi: An 11,000-Year-Old Site

After looking at Karahan Tepe, Harbetsuvan Tepesi and Sefer Tepe in recent videos, I next decided to take a look at Kurt Tepe, whose site of interest is actually known as Kurt Tepesi, another of the twelve Tas Tepeler sites being excavated or due to be excavated across Turkey.

This site is located on a hill that dominates the Coban Creek Pass, a small mound on a ridge formed by high limestone plateaus. The western half of the site has been subject to illegal excavations. The north end of the mound even has a large electricity pylon installed into it, making this a less than ideal site for archaeological work.

As far as we know, some exploratory work has been done with T-shaped pillars and flints discovered going back to 11,000 years ago. One T-shaped pillar is also unique in its decoration.

Watch this video to learn more about Kurt Tepesi and how it relates to the bigger picture of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Sites of Ancient Anatolia.

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Incredible Precision Stone Vessel at 11,000-Year-Old Site of Ayanlar Hoyuk

In the past few weeks I’ve made short video presentations on 5 out of the 12 Tas Tapeler sites of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Turkey and today I’m looking at a 6th, the western-most archaeological site known as Ayanlar Hoyuk.

Situated almost due west of Sanliurfa, Ayanlar Hoyuk was only discovered after land surveys in 2013 and although only a small section of the large mound has been investigated, it is already clear that this was once a very large centre in the pre-pottery Neolithic world.

It is the third largest man-made mound site identified so far, just smaller than Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.

we are only just starting to see the full extent of Karahan Tepe and to date, only a small percentage of Gobekli Tepe has been excavated, but remember the name Ayanlar Hoyuk, because this will be yet another breathtaking archaeological site after future excavations, and it will be something everyone will be talking about.

Watch this video to learn more about the incredible site of Ayanlar Hoyuk, the incredible, decorated precision stone vessel that's already been found, the stone head of leopard and more.

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20 NEW Discoveries from Karahan Tepe - 11,000-Year-Old Site (2022)


New discoveries just raises so many more questions?