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Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite
Author : gmays
Score : 128 points
Date : 2021-01-08 18:36 UTC (4 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
| adamsocrat wrote:
| It's so great that I'm seeing this type of content in the foreign
| feed. Because every week another ancient temple, town or monument
| discovering in Turkey and it is so wonderful to see this richness
| of root but, the problem is our people or government can't
| properly serving this to global, consequently all this founded
| waiting for to rot.
| OzzyB wrote:
| Can we please stop allowing these western forces to create
| archaeology sites in Turkey since it does nothing but empower
| "Remove Kebab" memes, thank you.
|
| I'm also happy to note that many churches and historic
| monasteries are being restored in (Northern) Cyprus [1] but alas
| nothing good can come of it.
|
| [1] https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2016/11/07/restoration-
| revere...
| 1cvmask wrote:
| No one in the West likes you guys and you will be hated no
| matter what you do in the white world. They even say yogurt is
| not turkish.
|
| At least some traveled white people like kebaps in the west.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Nobody ever said anything bad about Hamdi Ulukaya - check
| yourself
| 1cvmask wrote:
| He calls strained yogurt Greek yogurt. Perhaps that is
| why??
| OzzyB wrote:
| Thanks for restoring my belief in that it's all over at least
| we tried _sigh_.
| chr1 wrote:
| Yogurt have been eaten from Greece to India for 5000 years,
| way before Turkish invasions, so why would anyone say that it
| is exclusively Turkish?
| quercus wrote:
| No pictures. Drives me crazy when an article about an
| archaeological discovery provides not a single image of the
| object.
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| Having been on the other side of this, archaeologists don't
| take pictures to look good, but for documentation. There's
| typically also some ethical concerns if human remains or sacred
| sites are involved. Nevertheless, there are some photos in this
| article:
|
| https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/2-500-year-old-aphrodite-t...
| mbg721 wrote:
| This is a neat find. How many people dig around for something in
| their yard, oblivious to the fact that this is where Alexander
| the Great tossed his empties?
| KingOfCoders wrote:
| The amazing thing about Turkey far back is the first "temple"
| there. I've read once people speculate if the first city was
| build to support the build of the "temple"
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
| pikseladam wrote:
| They surfaced 2 more temples like Gobekli tepe this year. The
| area is said to have 10 more temples like that. One of which is
| believed to be older than Gobekli tepe.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahan_Tepe
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| Gobekli Tepe is interesting because it predates the neolithic,
| let alone "cities". They came around several millennia later.
| riffraff wrote:
| are you sure about it predates the neolithic?
|
| AFAIU, the temple is dated ~8-10000 years BCE, while the
| neolithic start should be around 12000 BCE, so it would be
| "early neolithic". But maybe I'm missing something.
| shakezula wrote:
| I recently got into a kick reading about ancient
| civilizations and learned about Gobekli Tepe and it blew my
| mind. It's substantially older than _anything_ else we have,
| and we're still finding sites older than it, and Turkey is
| chock full of sites like that. I really hope we're able to
| gain some more understanding about our past from these sites.
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