World's first temple?

Thanks for sharing this with all of us. I will have to go and check it out. I love stuff like this too.

Hi EkicBxn, Yes, that looks like a part of a temple with all those carvings, it really is beautiful, people in those day are truely very clever. Tamara

Thanks for this information.Is it a Hindu temple.

wow thanks so much for posting all this stuff I truly appreciate it.

Yet another interesting find... thank you again. I haven't read the article, just the captions with the photos, which brings up the question: If the builders didn't have metal tools, how did they make the carvings? Another caption states that the site was at first dismissed as a cemetery... I can see why: they do look like headstones.

Fascinating, to borrow an expression from my favorite Vulcan. And with that dramatic lighting, almost eerie. If I could walk, I'd love to play in that place. It has a lot of the fantastic about it. Brings out the shaman in me..../o) Thanks for posting it! Maggiepie

I'm so glad you posted this! What an incredible historic find. I can't imagine what else they are going to find over the next several years. What fascinates me the most is that those beautiful carvings were done without any metal tools! Ya gotta hand it to our ancient ancestors, they were a patient lot!

I love hearing things like this as I was once aspiring to be an archaeologist...LOL Makes one wonder just what else is to be discovered and who knows might so radically change our concepts of how old things really are. Maybe the carbon-14 and Potassium Argon dating methods are way, way off

How awesome!! I love anything about ancient history and thanks so much for sharing this!! I am going to check it out right now. Hugs!!

Looked at biblically this is the best location for such finds. Eden Was at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates with civilization stretching out from there until the flood. The Ark landed on Mt Ararat in what used to be called Kurdistan just south of Turkey in Northern Iraq. Civilization radiated out from this point with Babylon, south of Baghdad, being one of the largest and most well known cities. Abram migrated from this area on orders from God and settled in modern Israel. One empire after another crossed this region in wars of conquest. All the major empires of the past originate in the region. Babylon, Medio/Persia, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and so on. Every serious event of world history took place in that region. Great things happen all over the world but when they happen in that region they effect the world and the world takes notice. If your looking for major archaeological discoveries, look to the middle east. The fact is that archeology was a fairly unpopular interest until the Egyptologists that brought us all those amazing discoveries from the valley of the kings.