No one can agree on who built Gobekli Tepe, and to make things
worse, I have a brand new theory.
OK, before you dismiss this theory is being bonkers, I first
need to show you why I'm unsure of the other theories and also
why somebody else is trying to hide the evidence.
Let's put theory #1 to the test that primitive hunter gatherers
built Gobekli Tepe. In October 1994, in a little
town in Turkey, a local farm was plowing his feet when suddenly
he found an unusual shaped stone peering through the ground.
The farmer looked closer, brushed away some of the dirt,
only to realise that it might be part of a much larger structure
that was beneath the ground. Word quickly spread until the
highly esteemed German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt
arrived with a team and began excavating the area.
But what he found stunned the entire world.
Guys, you've got to get this to understand why it's so
fascinating to discover who built Gobekli Tepe.
As Schmidt and his team began to dig, they found 4 circular
enclosures covering 4000 square feet of lamp.
Each was made-up of monoliths and T shaped pillars weighing
between 40 to 60 tons. Some of these pillars reached
impressive heights as large as 6 meters.
So take all of that into your mind and now let this fact, all
four of these massive structures are angled perfectly to the
brightest star in the sky, Sirius.
Wait a second, am I the only one who wants to know how primitive
people who our school teachers would tell us they were only
capable of operating stone tools?
How is it that these guys had the knowledge of mathematics and
astronomy to line up all of these pillars to the star of
Sirius? And also, how did they have the
strength to lift one of these monoliths from the nearest
limestone quarry at the bottom of the hill all the way to the
top of the peak? That would be a journey that
would take 50 men at least one week to transport each pillar.
Oh, and by the way, this was all done without a wheel, because
the invention of a wheel only came 4000 years later.
I hear you though. It's not impossible.
But for me personally, the intricate carvings do offer a
different perspective of who built Gobekli Tepe.
But we'll come to that a little later.
I wonder whether I should tell you this because for reasons I
am later going to disclose, I very much doubt the accuracy of
the dating of Gobekli Tepe. However, this does prove that
something is a little off here with the hunter gatherer theory.
When Klaus Schmidt conducted radiocarbon dating on the stone
structure, his results claimed that the monoliths were 11,600
years old, which is absolutely insane when you remember that
mainstream experts believe that hunter gatherers emerge from the
Ice Age. Then discovered farm and only
built settlements in ancient Mesopotamia 6000 years after the
supposed date that Gobekli Tepe was built.
OK, I can hear exactly what some of you are thinking is that?
Really. The earliest evidence.
Of the first civilization. Well, yes, it is.
But there's also a proposed theory that 20 kilometers away
from the Potbelly Hill, which by the way is the translation of
Gobekli Tepe. Well, here, in this supposed
location here, apparently it was the first evidence of some kind
of agriculture. But even this was 1000 years
after our mysterious structure was meant to have been built.
Now, do you see why the dates just aren't adding up?
Well, there's more I'll say on this later, but right now, isn't
it kind of difficult to believe that this primitive civilization
is responsible for building Gobekli Tepe when the builders
clearly understood advanced technology and mathematics, but
somehow they didn't know at the same time how to simply farm a
field? I was really taken aback when I
also found out that even the man himself, Klaus Schmidt, had no
idea what Gobekli Tepe was used for.
Except he knew one thing. It wasn't a domestic settlement.
So let's go over to Schmidt's friend Graham Hancock, and let's
hear his theory on who he thinks builds the Potbelly Hill.
I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is.
It's a, it's a time capsule, it's a memorial to a lost time.
And and I think that what we're looking at in that whole, the
whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely
lost civilization. I think it passed on its
cultural genes right there in that, in that area of Turkey and
down into the Jordan Valley. That the creature, whatever it
is, Jamie, that one that's sort of black and white, that image
in the center says Visual Arts Cork.
Yeah, that one's amazing. It's amazing they cut away the
whole pillar to leave to leave that creature there, which
itself is hard to identify. Is it a crocodile?
How do they speculate that these people did this stuff?
You can't. You can't do stuff with stone
tools. So they use harder stone to
carve this stone. That's the argument.
And they is there evidence of these stones?
No, not that I'm aware of. There are, there are there are
some so-called pounding stones, but I find it difficult to see
how pounding stones, how pounding away could have created
this very fine result. It doesn't make a whole a whole
lot of sense to me. Theory #2 Gobekli Tepe was built
by some lost ancient civilization.
One thing you and I can be sure of, and it's this.
We know very little about these huge pillars.
After all, the entire structure has only been known to the
archaeological community for the last 50 years, and yet the area
has been steeped in tradition for centuries.
Take a look at this. This is the top of the Potbelly
Hill, and it is here that local communities have performed A
ritual where they'd walk around the tree several times, each
with a piece of cloth. They then take their cloth and
they tie it to one of the branches.
Each cloth was meant to represent a wish that they would
like to be granted. So again, I'll ask you, what
goes through your mind when you hear that?
I think it obviously points to some ancient mystical beliefs.
And something I did forget to mention is that Gobekli Tepe is
actually 6000 years older than Stonehenge, which is also
believed to be a place of mysticism.
This has LED some people to claim that Gobekli Tepe is the
world's oldest temple. Have you thought about?
This though so. The mainstream opinion is that
the primitive builders constructed this structure, and
yet the same people who hold this view are very hesitant to
uncover more of Gobekli Tepe to make a solid conclusion.
I mean, this really baffles me. How can anyone say for sure what
it is when only 10% of this site has been excavated, but
geophysical surveys show us the presence of 20 or more large
enclosures buried beneath the ground?
Are you imagining this right now?
90% of the entire monument is still underground, and there
have been no real advancements in archaeological digs since
2014. I am going to choose my words
carefully now. But out of the 43 pillars that
have been excavated, what is it that leads Graham Hancock and
other guests on the Joe Rogan podcast to state that Gobekli
Tepe was likely built by an ancient civilization?
Well, it's because of these intricate carvings.
It's essentially. You remember once again that the
belief of mainstream academia is that hunter gatherers, they
could produce interesting cave art, But megalift structures
with a solar calendar? Well, for those guys, it was
believed that that would be way too advanced for them to
accomplish. Now, for people who actually do
believe that the people before us weren't as smart, this for
them is very perplexing. And in 2024, researchers
proposed that certain carvings on Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe
were actually trying to record a comet impacts around 10,840 BC.
Hey, do I need to remind you that I have big question marks
about this? But it's OK, I will get to that
later. Right now, however, listen to
one of the most incredible things about Quebecly Tepe.
The most advanced and the most intricate carvings are actually
on the oldest pillars. As the pillars get newer, the
designs get less complex. I am sorry I never told you this
earlier, but archaeologists quick realized different
enclosures were built at different times.
The newest ones uncovered they claim are 10,500 years old and
that is why they believe that Gobekli Tepe was built
strategically for a purpose and they also believed it was used
for a time period of around 1000 years.
So what does all this mean? Well, according to their dating
system, and again, I do have some reservations, but what they
are proposing is that these intricate carvings came 6000
years before the invention of writing.
This obviously leads Graham Hancock and others to speculate
that there was an ancient civilization with a lost form of
knowledge or technology, especially in the realm of
astronomy. Kind of similar to what we
previously discussed in our videos on the pyramids.
OK, so let's ask the obvious question here.
Is there any evidence to support such a claim?
We'll take a look at Pillar 43. It points to the Scorpius
constellation. And when you even just glance at
the drawing, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they
are depicting a scorpion here. Now watch carefully, because if
we put the same drawings on a star map with the sun of the
vulture's wings in the same placement as our sun in the
night sky, we can suddenly see all of the constellations fall
into place, perfectly lining up with incredible precision.
Between you and me, if I had to choose which was my second
favorite theory for who built Gobekli Tepe, it would be this
one. And I would not be surprised
whatsoever if these guys were the ones who really were
responsible for this megalith structure and that is the
Goliath like creatures theory. So over to you.
Do you think our third theory giants are responsible for
building Gobekli Tepe? Do you think that that could
make any possible sense? Well no one can deny that
whoever built this site were what we call antediluvians,
meaning they existed before the worldwide judgement that fell on
the earth. Every ancient culture talks
about water covering the face of the earth and they also speak of
huge figures that also want wronged are very earth.
You may want to write this down for further research, but a few
months ago we did a deep dive on the antediluvian structures like
Stonehenge, the Callanish Stones and the Great Pyramids.
And you guys, well at least the vast majority of you, you agreed
with my position that these giant like creatures or the
watchers may be responsible for who built these structures,
which is of course contrary to what we're all commonly taught.
But if you do study the Bible and the accounts from ancient
cultures around the world, it's not hard to imagine that these
guys existed. And it explains how these
impossible structures were built.
And if you want to find out why this makes total sense, you
really should check out the video on this topic.
And I've left a link in the description.
Hey, big news everyone. Quebecly Tepe is even older
though than all of the these antediluvian structures, with
many archaeologists claiming it's the older structure on
earth now. That doesn't answer the question
though. Why do people believe that
giants built it? Well I'm so glad you asked.
A popular theory by archaeologists is that Gobekli
Tepe was purposely built and then it was buried.
Some people believe that giants were responsible for this
because they wanted to preserve what was on it.
Some even state that this site was used for post Edenic
worship, place of idol worship and ritual.
Now I find this fascinating but there is a story about the
Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis and that is that they were
once giants who refused to accept Christianity and then
they were judged and thus turned to stone.
This obviously is bonkers but a similar folk tale is told about
the large T shaped pillars at Quebecli Tepe that they were
once human deities. Now, please don't misunderstand
me. I obviously don't think that
that was true, but I do think that a plausible explanation for
its building could involve some kind of massive creature like a
giant. Why?
Well, the unavoidable conclusion is this.
Gobekli Tepe is 7000 years older than the accepted date for the
pyramids. It's twice as old as Stonehenge,
and it's 50 times larger, spanning an impressive 20 acres.
So if there's mystery around Stonehenge, how?
Much more. Mystery then surrounds the
Potbelly hill. But wait, there's more.
The site contains at least 20 huge circular enclosures, and as
you know, only four have been uncovered.
But an estimated 200 T shaped limestone pillars remain buried.
Using geophysical surveys, they've calculated that these
pillars are all 20 feet tall, with some fallen pillars in the
ground weighing as much as 50 metric tons.
I mean, come on, guys. Yes, of course it's possible
that primitive humans built this structure without a wheel or
machinery or even the knowledge of farming.
But when you consider the size, the weight and the mathematics
of this project, do you not think that they might need
something else to help them build it, like a supernatural
creature which is mentioned in the Bible?
And yes, I will say, as I often say in my videos, I could be way
off with this. But the question does need.
To be asked. How do we untangle all of this?
Well, let's see if our final theory provides an answer on who
built Beckley Tepe the Jimmy Corsetti theory.
Jimmy Corsetti from Bright Insight YouTube channel has
really made me think. He believes they are
deliberately slowing down excavation on the site.
How can he make such a statement?
Well, the official owners of Gobekli Tepe have planted
orchard after orchard of a protective kind of olive tree,
which cannot just be cut down by anybody.
And you can imagine the archaeological community, they
were very concerned about thousands of trees being planted
over the older structure on earth because as we've talked
about already, 90 to 95% of it is still hidden underground.
And the roots of these trees would surely damage or
accelerate the decay of these ancient structures below the
earth. Now, am I the only one here who
finds all of this a little bit baffling?
After all, you don't need a degree in horticulture to know
that these roots are highly destructive.
And they can cut through, they can grow through stone or even
concrete. So here's the answer we all want
to know. Why are they doing this and why
are they being so slow to excavate the rest of Gobekli
Tepe? Well, the fact is, this guy's no
real progress has been made since 2014 when Klaus Schmitz
first completed his excavation. I mean, how do we not know that
one artifact hidden below the ground out of the 90% that is
totally buried? How do we not know that this
could be the one greatest discovery that we've ever found?
It could explain so much about our ancient history.
OK let's just slow down for a minute because there is actually
one suggestion question and we could just give them the benefit
of the doubt Because they say one reason they are not
excavating is because in 150 years time they do plan to do
another archaeological dig. And they say the reason for this
is they will have better technology that could protect
the ruins from getting damaged as they seek to unearth this
ancient structure. Whilst that does seem like a
genuinely good reason, it doesn't explain the massive
amount of olive trees that they have planted over the sites and
also so it doesn't explain the giant tourism centre which again
with its huge roof covers and prevents further excavation. 1
cynical view has a very different reason for why all of
this has happened. They say it's all about money
because in 2018 70,000 visitors went to Gobekli Tepe, but by
2024 that number had increased to nearly 1,000,000 visitors.
Well, of course tourism, it makes money, but archaeology on
the flip side, that costs money and that is why tourism seems to
remain the priority and also. Perhaps why they are.
Keeping parts of it buried because it builds the plot and
it increases the mystery of Gobekli Tepe.
On the 12th of June 2024, Jimmy Corsetti released a post on
Twitter pointing out this issue and since then the site owners
have admitted that the tree roots were indeed damaging the
ruins below and so they have carefully uprooted 1000 trees
and planted them in an area away from Gobekli Tepe.
Jimmy also has a very interesting theory of who he
believes built Gobekli Tepe, and I want to take it even further
than where Jimmy took it. However, if Noah's ark existed,
many believe that it was crashed onto Mount Ararat, which is also
in Turkey. And something fascinating is
that in the Bible, in Genesis 820, some of the first verses
after Noah emerged from the flood is that he was said to
have constructed an altar to the Lord where he sacrificed some of
every clean animal and some of every clean bird.
Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey, and every single one of those
pillars annotates animals. And some have suggested that it
could be Noah's altar. Now that could be one reason why
they won't want to excavate it. It's absolutely critical you
understand just how much animals feature in the artwork of the
structure. There are two big limestone
pillars facing each other, and on the various other pillars are
carvings of animals of nearly every kind.
There are wild donkeys, gazelles, snake, scorpions,
foxes, big cats, vultures, wolves, wild boars, lizards and
fish. And by the way, many of these
animals are not indigenous to the area, which suggests a
knowledge of faraway places or even that the builder himself
knew each of these animals personally.
So let me ask you a question. Have you pieced our puzzle
together yet? Jimmy Corsetti believes Noah may
have built Gobekli Tepe. Wow, that's a plot twist and a
half, Joe. Well, it it is, but would you
like to hear why Jimmy makes such a claim?
Well, apart from all of the carved animals being seen as
symbolic of the animals of Noah's Ark, we know that the
Bible teaches that Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of
Ararat and what is 300 miles South of Ararat in Turkey
itself, Gobekli Tepe. So Cassetti argues that it could
have been built as a place of remembrance.
And he even cites Bible verses on the Joe Rogan podcast.
So just a minute here on the largest podcast in the world,
they are suggesting the oldest structure on earth could have
been built by Noah in the Bible. Well, I do have to say this.
Now, there is a contradiction here, which I do want to come to
in just a second. But first I want you to take a
look at this particular pillar. Again, this is pillar 43,
perhaps the pillar with the most speculative theories surrounding
it. So here's the thing.
When I heard Jimmy and Rogan discussing this, it made me
think entirely differently about Quebecli Tepe.
I mean, what if Noah was trying to preserve the story of what
happened to him for future generations?
And what if he really did carve out those images of Quebecli
Tepe? After all, he'd know how to use
tools after building an ark. OK, let me stop you right there
though, because I want you to know we really must tread very
carefully here. This is of course not to be
taken as gospel truth, and like I said earlier, we could be way
off about all of this. But when you do consider this
theory, it does put a different perspective on Pillar 43, for
instance, at the bottom of the pillar, do you notice that, man?
I mean, is that a picture of death?
Then at the top, you tell me. What do you see at the top of
the pillar? Some say that these are just
three handbags, but I think it looks an awful lot like an arc
or even waves crashing over on the creatures.
The same can be said about pillar 56 where you can see
waves again and then it seems like the animals are running and
then on pillar 53 you can see. Waves at the top and then waves
at the bottom, almost surrounding one creature.
But again, these are just opinions of mine.
I do wonder though, this creature here that's represented
on pillar 43, is that meant to be the dove that flew out of
Noah's? Ark and brought back.
An olive branch again, I'm not so sure, but it is interesting
to dwell on just for a moment. There is another theory relating
to the Book of Revelation that I'd like to hear your opinion
on. But first, let's talk about the
dating systems. And why is is there a
contradiction between Noah's alter?
And yet at the same time, when we think about the age of
Gobekli Tepe, mainstream archaeologists will tell you
that Gobekli Tepe is 11,600 years old, and that figure comes
mainly from radiocarbon dating. The idea is simple.
On the surface, living things absorb carbon from the
atmosphere, including tiny amounts of radioactive carbon
14. When they die, they stop
absorbing it and the carbon 14 starts to decay.
This is because we know that it only has a half life of around
5700 and. 30 years meaning. Half of it decays in that time.
Scientists measure how much is left, and then they estimate how
long ago it was that the Organism died.
It sounds clever, right? But here's the thing.
That whole system relies on some major assumptions.
It assumes that the rate of decay has never changed and that
the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere has always been
stable, and also that we know exactly how how much was in the
sample to begin with. But what if those assumptions
were wrong? What if the conditions in the
past were dramatically different?
That would totally throw off the results.
And if something started with much less carbon 14, or if decay
rates were faster due to atmospheric factors that we
don't fully understand well, it would look way older than it
really is. So when they say Gobekli Tepe is
11,600 years old, I do take that with a very large pinch of salt.
From a biblical perspective, I believe human history only
stretches back about 6000 years, maybe 10,000 years at a stretch,
which means this site could perhaps fit in with that time
frame. And I can see some of you are
shaking your head right now, but it actually does make a lot of
sense when you look at it this way.
You've got early humans right after a huge reset in history,
settling down, rebuilding and producing incredibly
sophisticated structures far earlier than secular history
allows for. We also know that the first
proper civilizations in summer in southern Mesopotamia emerged
around 4000 BC, which lines up quite nicely with the biblical
timeline to sites like Gobekli Tepe.
They don't challenge the Bible. They actually fit into the
picture of ancient people spreading out and restarting
society with the knowledge that they already had.
OK, while you're busy making up your mind on the age of Gobekli
Tepe, I'm going to add a bonus thing theory to our list.
It is almost unbelievable, but some people are stating that
Gobekli Tepe could be one big cartoon.
Cut out a cartoon which is proclaiming future prophecies
listed in the Bible. How can such a statement be
made? We'll observe pillar 27 in
enclosure C. You probably already know that
this is the most intricate carving at Gobekli Tepe.
But did you know that a minority.
And I will just stop here and say I'm not buying this
personally, but a minority believe it might be depicting a
creature described in Revelation 13 verse two.
OK, you guessed it. We've got to go back to the
infamous pillar 43. So what's the deal with this
pillar and Revelation according to this small group of people?
Well, I've heard it proposed by someone that the Vulture that
seems to be holding a ball could be representing A vulture
holding a hailstone or even an Angel holding a hailstone.
And this is the hailstone that we hear about, which will fall
on the. Earth when the Angel.
Blows his first trumpets. Another theory is that the
scorpions that are seen on this pillar and on the other pillars
could be the scorpions that are described in Revelation 9 verse
3. Have you heard this before
though? They also claim that the Vulture
could represent the birds that fly in the midst of heaven which
will be called down at one point to feast on the remains which is
mentioned in Revelation 19. Whilst that could be a
possibility guys, I. Really do find it hard to.
Believe. But I beg you.
Please tell me what? Do you think about these
different theories? Was the Book of Revelation
carved out on the? Potbelly Hill years.
Before it was written as a sort of prophecy, was it put there as
a warning of impending doom that was going to come down?
On the earth or do you believe that it was an.
Altar built by Noah and his family after they emerged off
the mountains of Ararat? Or was it built by smart people
like a lost ancient civilization?
Or was it? Even laid there by the watchers,
right? If you really push me in a
corner and you asked. Me what is my?
Opinion on what? Theory do I think?
Is most credible. Well, supposing the dates are
wrong about Gobekli Tepe, which I personally think they are, I
think maybe, just maybe, they could be a few thousand years
out. After all, as a young earth
creationist, earth could be anywhere from 6000 to 10,000
years old. Well.
If. That is the case.
I personally. Wouldn't be surprised.
If it was built. By Noah.
Or if it wasn't built by Noah, it could have at least been
built by someone who knew Noah or wanted to recount the
narrative of God's judgment on the earth.
Especially since the earliest books of the Old Testament are
full of descriptions about animals.
So it would make sense. That these builders also put an
emphasis on animals too. Something else that I really
should have told you about earlier is a recent white paper
by researchers. They were analyzing Gobekli
Tepe, and it suggests that Pillar 18 May contain the
earliest written word in human history.
And remarkably, that word simply could be God, carved at the very
center of the enclosure and distinct from all of the animal
symbols around it. The inscription that led some to
speculate that Gobekli Tepe wasn't just a ceremonial site.
But it was actually. A place of worship or even a
dedicated altar, perhaps supporting the theory or the
connection that we've talked about of the huge biblical event
involving Noah. So just take all of that into
your mind. That Gobekli Tepe.
Might be the oldest. Structure on earth, and it might
hold the first word that was ever to be written on earth, the
word God. You almost couldn't write this
stuff, if you catch my drift. But another option is what my
friend suggested that once mankind emerge from Eden, that
they would have a supreme intelligence, that they would be
even smarter than we are today. He actually put it like this.
He said technology has made us less smart.
For instance, most people 70 years ago could figure out what
sqrt 1600 was, and they could do that without using any type of
technology. But if I ask you right now,
without using any technology, can you tell me what sqrt 1600
is? I'd imagine many of you can't,
and neither can I. So maybe that's why the Pyramid,
Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe were built in such interesting ways.
But of course, let's not rule out the what as builders either.
But here's one. Question that will stomp you for
hours and hours if you don't know the answer and it's this,
who builds you? So after all the.
Theories, the symbols, the carvings, the timelines, the
talk of Noah and lost civilizations.
We come to that final huge question, Who built you?
It's a simple question, but so many don't know the answer
because when you pull back all of the.
Speculation. All of the.
Stones. All of the science.
This isn't just about Gobekli Tepe anymore.
It's actually about you. Are you a product of randomness,
cosmic chants? Or were you designed?
Loved and formed. For a purpose.
The Bible gives a stunning answer.
It says, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. You are not an accident.
You were handcrafted by a God who knows you deeply and who
wants to be known by you. And that changes absolutely
everything. Because whiles Gobekli Tepe may
carry echoes of long lost worship or judgment or survival,
we have something they didn't. We have the gift of Jesus
Christ, the revealed Savior of the world.
We don't need to carve our stories into stone.
God himself stepped. Into history.
Not with cryptic animal symbols or mysterious monuments, but in
flesh and blood. Jesus came to reveal who God is,
not just as Creator, but as rescuer.
Because here's the truth. Every single one of us has
turned away from the God who made us.
That's what the Bible calls sin. And like in the days of Noah,
there is a judgment coming. But God didn't leave us
hopeless. Just as Noah was given an ark,
we've been given a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus lived the life. We.
Couldn't he died the death that we deserved?
And he rose again so that we could have eternal life, not
just later, but right now? Forgiveness.
New life, peace. With the one who?
Built you not through being religious, not through doing
rituals, not by building altars, but by trusting in Jesus Christ,
the Bible says in John 316. For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life.
And that invitation is for you. You don't need to stand at an
ancient altar to meet God. You just need to bow your heart
to Christ, the Son of God who took the judgment we deserved
for our wrongdoing. He died in our place so that we
wouldn't have to face that judgment ourselves.
Our friend and Lord stepped in and took our place for us, being
the substitute for our sin. And now?
Because of what he. Did we can be.
Forgiven and know God. Personally, just by believing in
Him and asking him to save us and make us one of his children.
So let me leave you with just one question one more time.
And it's not about the ruins. It's about your soul who built
you. And more importantly, will you
trust in Him today? If the answer's no, it's simple.
Just bow down right now and call on the name of Jesus Christ and
say save me, wash away my sins. I know you made me, I know you
love me, but I also know I need to be forgiven and saved.
And only you can do that. And if you pray that prayer or
something along those lines, the God who hears all things will
save you instantly. Hey.
But if you are already a Christian, or if you do need a
little bit more convincing, well, there is some more
breathtaking and even more baffling antediluvian structures
that I told you about earlier. If you still haven't seen that
video, you better click here right now.