Mendiktepe: Older than Göbekli Tepe & Karahan Tepe!

this looks alike iberian "castros"

✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

In the 50's our history lessons were mostly not correct. The next 50 years will be so interesting. Egypt was my interest from school. The changes from then have been massive.

Opposed to the worlds oldest Teepee.

Interesting settlement. Thank you for bringing to our attention. Big failure on the financial backers to not share the news. Am I correct in understanding that two of the financial backers are affiliated with British universities?

TEPE Compact and TEPE Extreme are also undisvcovered sites...!

"...TEPEEIII..." aka tepe, means peak in turkish. So you can call it Gobekli hiltop, or "whatever"-hiltop.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Brilliant. Thanks mate 👍🔥🔥

At last a Tepeler site that I can pronounce👍👍

Thank you.

Makes me wonder that climate was part of the reason for settling not just farming. Easier to stay warm in a solid stone structure with a big fire. Thanks for your videos, glad you had such a great time and looking forward to your future vids 😊👍

it feels like an exclusive place where ancient elites, scientist, specialist, go with their slaves, to do works. then dangers were born unexpectedly. they have to burry it. like CERN if CERN is hasty. some energy we can understand, but some like dark energy or black one, we cant really understand, so be carefull.

I. LOVE. OLD. STUFF!!

Turkiye not Turkey!

How many more sites are there out there yet to be discovered? Has a LIDAR survey been done of the area at all? AS you say, the earliest site we know of , is only part of the story. There must be precursors of a more fleeting nature. Perhaps this one will prove to be key in our understanding of these people .

Amazing how close to the surface it is.

2 questions. How did they make roofs for these structures and how did those old people figure out how to build these structures?

Just fascinating.

I saw a report which claimed that this was created by noah and the descendants of noah to tell the story of the times before the flood as well as the flood story. Out of all the mainstream media claiming that they cant figure it out this report seams the most credible to me. So for me mystery solved

This is so cool! Thank you for talking about this site and introducing it to many of us in the west.

It's always seemed apparent to me that this region was more widely settled during this part of the neolithic than i think many people realize. Even of the many sites that have been discovered and partially excavated, there's so much more still buried surrounding them and likely many more sites yet to be discovered.

I would not be surprised if we discover in the future that some of these sites that we think are exclusive to each other are actually linked by smaller stretches of settlements similar to how modern cities are linked together.

Thankyou Matt for taking us to these amazing sites. I will probably never get the opportunity to make such a journey so having you be my eyes and showing this is a pure joy for me. Thankyou!

Discoveries are getting older and older!

And to think, it all started over again...
With Noah and the three hookers...
Three children per year for the first 15 years... After 90 years ? it was time to build a school.... ? 😮

Karahan Tepe deserves credit for the first sadomasochism stonemasonry public human death cults 😅😅

Hunter gatherers/ survivors of the Younger Dryas.

Start mapping all of these "tepes" and soon you have a vast "city".

That small standing stone outside the domestic circle: which compass direction is it facing away from the domestic structure? What are the compass directions of its long axis? These might provide clues to its relevance. In British neolithic structures, many were oriented with a feature, such as an "entrance" oriented to the winter solstice sunrise to the North-East.

Thank you very much.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Wonderful🌹

I love this channel. Did you eat melon, pistachios, sunflower seeds and drink Rakı late into the night at a tea garden in Şanli Urfa?
I was anticipating a tale or two.

I saw GT several years ago before the tourist facilities were built. I also traveled Anatolia. It’s obvious that eastern Turkey is covered with antediluvian evidence. Definitely, explore Cappadocia

Fabulous and really interesting, thank you. I too cannot wait to hear more about this site.

Excellent!!

Very much interesting. Wonder if when we get a better insight into the layouts of each settlements and the dating and such, if we can see some kind of evolution in building. On the migration... I can also imagine some settlements being on one site, some on the other and people getting to tired to walk long distance so they built something in between.

I have to wonder if the people's of that time didn't still travel often. Perhaps settling for long enough to raise children until the children were old enough to be able, and help with the traveling.

What I like to see is that mankind has always moved about and we don’t necessarily know why. Something happens and that’s it, the population fades away, is destroyed or amalgamates with a larger group. There are the remains of a village a few miles from me, no one understands how it became deserted - it gives scope for speculation and imaginings - sometimes knowing destroys the wonder and magic. Another exciting find.

here's a theory some may like and others may not:
at the end of the last Ice Age human beings had progressed to the point where we had the mental capacity to live more complex lives, then people came into places like the Tas Tepeler region and due to the abundant natural resources were able to live at first semi-settled and then fully settled lives but were still saddled with social mechanisms (i.e. spiritual beliefs) that were contradictory with settled life. Well, our big-brained selves would invent new spiritual beliefs, beliefs that would be harmonious with settled life, once settled life became a spiritual imperative then maintaining it was a given which led to early experiments in agriculture and then on to true agriculture and everything else, but the order is important because it points out the critical, indispensable element that religion was in the process. We are civilized because we are spiritual, not the other way around.

Now waiting for the news on a newly discovered site older than Mendik tepe, Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.

I am very excited about the discoveries in Turkey. I've loved this stuff since the 1950's and this new work is mind blowing. And I learn all this on Ancient Architects. BAM!!!

I've just read a hill Which called Cakmaktepe built before Gobeklitepe .. thanks for video it's so amazing to see the zero of historic places.

No surprise here cause Gobeklitepe is not a begining

They have yet to discover the most ancient site of all...OldFogeyTepe

This site is from the Younger Dryas? Let's see how Hancock make more lies baout this one.

Ancient Architects has spoiled me. This is the only site I now trust. There is so much fake stuff out there. So carry on, and millions of thanks to you!

Please don't take anything just like the so called archeologists or photographers that visited these lands the last couple of centuries.

From ice age temples to ancient "bunkers" and beyond, Turkey is proving itself to be one of the cradles of human civilization.

My first new video after my tour of Turkey, and we're looking at a new Taş Tepeler site called Mendiktepe. This will be the first English language video on this site on the internet, in fact the English-speaking piece of media on the internet, because the excavation of the site is in its VERY early days and so far it's only been picked up by a handful of local Turkish media outlets. Already we know it's old - older than Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe - and could be the oldest permanent settlement in SE Anatolia. I've plotted it very specifically on Google Earth, include a few photographs you can't see anywhere else on the internet and I've published pretty much everything there is to know at this stage. Thank you for watching and please do subscribe - I've got so much more to come!