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11.14.2008

Stone Age Temple May Be Birthplace of Civilization


Gevork Nazaryan via Wikimedia Commons: Freestanding T-shaped monoliths within the walls of Gobekli Tepe.

It's more than twice as old as the Pyramids, or even the written word. When it was built, saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths still roamed, and the Ice Age had just ended.