Göbekli Tepe may hold first human writings

Mavi Boncuk

Prehistory specialist of the German Archeological Institute in Berlin announced the findings of a South Eastern Turkish Excavation site near Sanliurfa called Göbekli Tepe ("Nabelberg") . Klaus Schmidt claims the 11 600 old stone markings of this temple are the worlds earliest known form of writing. "The geometrical forms and small animal reliefs are surely more than just ornamentations. Humans somewhat wanted to communicate with future humans here " he says in a February 14, 2006 Berliner Morgenpost article. Excavator Schmidt interprets Goebekli Tepe as a center for a complicated dead cult and adds, "This was monumental architecture, 6000 years before the pyramids." The monoliths were lower than the surrounding walls indicating that the intention was not architectural in erecting them.