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Göbekli Tepe's great stone circles were raised around 9600 to 8800 BCE — six thousand years before Stonehenge, seven thousand before the Great Pyramid. They predate pottery, metal, the wheel, writing — and farming itself. The full documentary "6,000 Years Before Stonehenge: What Ground Radar Found Under Göbekli Tepe" is coming soon on Mythologia Geographic. #GobekliTepe #Archaeology #AncientHistory

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00:00The great circular enclosures, the Laer archaeologists call Laer Roman III, were built in the centuries around 9,600 to
00:118,800 BCE.
00:14Sit with what that means. These pillows were raised roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge and 7,000 years before
00:24the Great Pyramid.
00:26They predate pottery. They predate metal, the wheel, and writing.
00:31And most shocking of all to the old model of history, they predate farming itself.

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