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The unfinished pillar still lying in the quarry at the mysterious megalithic site of Gobekli Tepe (south-east Turkey) where it was left by the builders 12,000 years ago after they discovered a fault in the rock. It is T-shaped like the majority of the finished pillars in the main enclosures. it is estimated to weigh about 50 tons. It is intriguing, and indeed paradigm-shattering that our ancestors of 12,000 years ago, supposedly hunter-gatherers, were able to contemplate moving stones of such weight. Photograph by Santha Faiia.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:48:40 +0000

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