By Laura Rani Rai,
In the 1990s, archaeologists working in the barren hills of southeastern Turkey made a discovery that would provide the foundations of our understanding of civilization. Near the city of Aanlava, on a remote limestone stone, called the Gabkali tapes (“Potley Hill”), the large -scale t -shaped pillars spread from the ground. What came out of the subsequent excavation, however, was a bit more mysterious and more mysterious.
Archaeologists revealed a vast complex of controversial stone circles, which contains complex painting lime stone megallites. These pilles, some towering over 5.5 Metres Tall and weighting Between 10 to 20 toonnes, Featured Exquisite Reliefs of Animals – Foxes, Snakes, Boars, Birds – Well As Well As Abstract Symbols and Humanoid Forms. Radio Carbon Dating revealed the amazing age of the site: at least 11,600 years old, which predicted Stone Henj 6,000 years and at least 7,000 to Egypt’s great pyramids.
Gabkali tapes are related to the pre -Potri Nethytic period, which is a time before cities, writing and agriculture. Or was it? It was created by a society with complexity and intentions, which we once thought were that the hunter collectors were ancient. As an Egyptian expert, this site attracts me deeply. Although the thousand -year -olds and geography are separated, the Gobkali tapes and ancient Egypt are amazingly parallel to architecture, symbolism, and cosmic consciousness. In this article, I discover the links that can connect these two notable civilizations over time.
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NABTA PLAY: Egypt’s early stone circle and Calendar
Prior to Giza, before the Egyptian alliance, a group of nomads in southern Egypt built a stone circle on a remote field in the western desert near the border with Nubia. This is the place we call the NAB Play. Between 7000 and 6000 BC, this notable site, such as the gobackal tapes, contains meglath alignment alignment that acts as one of the early astronomical calendars of human history. Some stones are associated with sunrise in the summer, helping these early people predict the arrival of the Nile flood season.
It seems that the Nabata Play also contains ancient cow’s burial and large -scale stone cows, which indicate early livestock sects. This devotion for boys will later become a central position in Egyptian myths, especially in the form of Hatur, which is the goddess of love and fertility.
The existence of the NABPlay provides a tremendous forecast to the post -Egyptian temples and the places. It also serves as the first point of compared to the Gobkali tape, which shows that different cultures in the ancient world are experiencing thousands of years before the traditional “civilization” begins with the Magylith, the heavenly alignment, and the sacred symbol.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Bitcoin Photo
- Memorial construction with ancient tools
How did the Gobkali tape builders meet such architecture without metal tools or load animals? Like the ancient Egyptians, they created and erected large -scale stones using basic tools, namely the chicken tools, anticlar horns. Lime stone pillars, many people were standing two kilometers from nearby sources, possibly transferred to plant fibers, wood sled and human muscle juice with OP.
In Egypt, thousands of years later, similar methods were widely used. The great pyramid of Giza was built with more than two million blocks of limestone and granite, which was transmitted with sled, copper tools and dollars. Egyptian experts now know that the manpower is comprised of organized, well -fed Egyptian laborers, including the whole nation, many of whom have seen their work as a sacred duty. Has the Gabkali tape’s architects shared a similar spiritual stimulus to create a seasonal gathering to create a sacred place?
- Align for the universe
One of the most interesting ideas about Gabkali tape is that it has a heavenly phenomenon. Scholars have suggested that these walls have been based to track the rise of special stars or towers. Although the final evidence is still being discussed, the concept of bringing the sacred structure to the heavens is the same in which the ancient Egyptians have mastered.
In Giza, the pyramids are famously associated with cardinal points and can also be associated with the stars of the Orion’s belt, which are affiliated with the later gods of life. Temples like Abu Sambal are based on solar events over a year, the rays of the sun illuminate the sculptures inside the inner sac. This cosmic harmony, which is achieved in architecture, indicates how the ancients were strengthened in the sky with the movement of stars and planets.
Can Gobkali tapes represent the beginning of this global theory? This is a prototype of sacred astronomy that will fully realize in ancient Egypt?
- Animal symbols and spiritual meaning
The art of Gabkali tape is rich in animal reflection: fox, wild pigs, donkeys, bulls and snakes dominated relief. These wild creatures were probably suffering from symbolic or spiritual meaning, even if we still do not fully understand their role. Interestingly, many of these animals appear in the symbolic and religious world of ancient Egypt.
In Egypt, the bull represented power, fertility and divine kingdom. The snake, often a cobra, is a symbol of protection and chaos, while Jacquel was associated with Anubis and Vivate, the former, former, god of the deity and the latter, the “opener of the methods”. Birds, especially donkeys and folks, play a protective and divine role. In Egypt, these animals were often anthropomorphy, which is often shown as gods in comprehensive forms. In the goback tapes, on the contrary, the animals appear in nature, yet they are not yet formally made in the pantheon. Also, there are no pictures of the breeding animals, as is in ancient Egypt.
Does this suggest that Gabcali tapes represent the first stage of sacred map development? At a time when wild animals were worshiped in themselves and themselves instead of divine vessels? Perhaps the Egyptian temple makers inherited these visual words and made it into their theocratic universe.
Astronomical roof Heather Hatrum Temple Dandra c) Laura Ranryer
- Sky Vachers and Sacred Time
The Gabcali tape may be more than a formal center. Many scholars believe that its circular walls were linked to heavenly events such as solistosis and acneoxes, which allow ancient people to detect the rhythms of heaven and to collect seasonally for sacred scenes.
Recent results, including Dr. Martin Sweetman’s 2024 study, showed that site builders prepared a lunar piety in stone: 12 lunar months besides 11 additional days, while keeping track of solar years. If true, it will be the world’s oldest calendar.
Ancient Egypt, thousands of years later, continued this tradition in a better form. Temples like Karnak were in harmony with solar events, while the Helicles of Series anchored its 365 -day piety.
Whether Pragithask is in Turkey or in Pharaoh Egypt, we see the same kind of continuity: keeping the society align with the cosmic and respecting the divine order written in the stars.
- Ancient grain eaters and beer drinkers? Diet and early agriculture
Although most predators are categorized as a place of collectors, evidence of the Govikley tapes suggests that its architects were due to agricultural life. Archaeological remains show that iconorine wheat and wild joe were collected and potentially cultivated. The site -sided scallets and grinding stones support the idea that early farming activities are starting to complete the hunting. Based on evidence of liquids found in large basins – they, such as ancient Egyptians who can enjoy grain alcohol – beer!
Almonds and pistachios – gathered from the local environment – were also part of their diet. In ancient Egypt, these nuts indicate a wide range of nuts, dishes, selected harvesting and seasonal planning. In Egypt, Emer wheat and like a grain were the basis of daily provision and the main place of religious offerings. In this way, both societies concentrated their lives, rituals and economies on the grace of the earth, whether wild or cultivated.
Shared human vision, separated from thousands of years
Although it is surprising in the mind that the early neolithic guy could achieve such amazing things – and we think that 6000 years ago was engaged in such complex rituals, all of which is understood. These were the men who thought, created, worshiped, and celebrated the Egyptian thousands of years later, like their successors.
Gabkali tape’s builders and ancient Egyptian builders were separated from more than 6,000 years and wide geographical distances. Nevertheless, they jointly jointly shared something necessary: the deep desire to reach the Divine, to organize society around the sacred architecture and to portray the heavens in the earth. The two civilizations demonstrated the amazing ability to integrate the plans of the building on a large -scale building, to embed the symbolic meaning in the stone and to affect life with spiritual purpose.
Although there is no direct lineage between Gobkali tapes and ancient Egypt, parallel suggest that religious architecture, cosmic alignment, sacred symbol, and even seeds of agricultural life were already embracing the builders of the early temple of humanity. Ancient Egypt will make these emotions better and formal in one of the most sustainable civilizations in human history.
Perhaps, in the Gabkali tapes, we reflect a spiritual spark that will later fall on the pyramid of the pyramids, temples and gods along the Nile.
Join me to discover these surprises more
I invite you to deepen these topics deep in their large -scale online lectures, where we look for the amazing archeology of the Govikley tape and make a powerful comparison with ancient Egypt.
“Before Pharaoh: Gabkali Tape: The world’s first temple?
Zoom Lecture – June 19, 2025 on EDT at 4 pm
Here I am registered: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/134140656119?Aff=oddtdtdtcreator
Do not leave this opportunity to travel time and place – Pragithask from Turkey to the temples of ancient Egypt – and discover deep contacts that bound us to our sacred past.
Or travel with me to the Govikley tape!
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