The strangest part of Gobekli Tepe is its inhabitants entombed their temple under thousands of tons of earth creating the artificial hills on which the unnamed shepherd walked in 1994.
No one knows why Gobekli was buried. Strange indeed.
Gobekli Tepe is the oldest such site in the world, by a mind numbing margin. It is so old that it predates settled human life. It is pre-pottery, pre-writing, pre-wheel, pre everything. Gobekli hails from a part of human history that is unimaginably distant. - Tom Cox
