The new excavation season in Southeastern Anatolia is well underway, with work continuing at ten Taş Tepeler sites, including Göbekli Tepe and its sister site, Karahan Tepe, both of which have origins dating back to 11 and a half thousand years ago.
As I showed in my last video, we’ve already heard from archaeologist Dr Lee Clare about the work that’s taking place at Göbekli Tepe in 2024, and now there is news coming out of Karahan Tepe. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/HJpEEypdPpk?si=-NzGQC4j2gczuK68
This year, archaeologists are working on the structures that surround the main heart of the site, that being the communal, special purpose Building, AD. It’s in this building where archaeologists came across a beautiful and rare carving of a running, wild donkey.
Watch this video to learn more about the find, and to hear about what’s going on at Karahan Tepe this year.
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New Discovery at Karahan Tepe: The Figure of a Running Wild Donkey Carved on Stone
https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/kultur/karahantepede-bulunan-kosan-yaban-esegi-figuru-neolitik-doneme-isik-tutacak/3317585
https://x.com/MehmetNuriErsoy/status/1829769689217528156
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Wow….. Neat! 🤠🤠🤠
I find it funny that some people assume that only children would doodle. Have you never, as an adult, just started drawing on a piece of paper near you? Or even scratching something into the dirt or rock you're sitting near?? What kind of boring, artless, whimsy-less lives do you all lead?
That donkey is the cutest thing I've ever seen, and anybody mocking it needs to get off their high horse (pun intended). It could have just been someone who lived there, doodling on the floor, that makes it even more interesting in my eyes. Everyday people doing everyday things.
I think the donkey stone is a repurposed stone from something or somewhere else. Same goes for the ‘grinding stones’ in the floor and they would’ve been covered in woven material – wicker or something similar – when in use as a floor.
And at that time it was likely not much more than a quick sketch, just for fun. The guy* would be really astonished that we make such a fuzz about it.
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* gal?
Thank you for continuing to record and show the new Mirazan sites (the original, local local name for the recent official government name). Mirazan means a "miracle maker". The local, childless Kurdish women give offerings at the hill, hoping for a child. The fertility myth of the hills, still lingers. Mirazan is the meaningful, local name for this entire super old civilization/culture. A lot better than the silly name of Gobekli ("potbelly")– given to it by the ruling government there . I hope you continue showing us more and more of the Mirazan sites as they get dug up
That looks like Shrek’s donkey!!!
Keep it coming bro. Love the input!
If ancient people are so similar to us then why does their artwork look so crappy
Wild Ass, we still have many today.
Hi Matt. I suggested to Matt Beale Limitless that he gets in touch with you. I know you have a big audience, but it's a great longform podcast. He's a great interviewer and he is a passionate collector of many stone vases. He's reached out, so have a look, and get in touch with him if you want.
what comes to my mind:
Mum grinding, child sitting next to her, bored and doodles a donkey on the slab…
I went there in April 2023, but now that I look at the pictures again, I don't recognize them. They have excavated a very large area. We toured it for an hour with the excavation manager and he explained it to us. There was no picture of this beautiful donkey
I think I just saw this on megalithomania
Shrek's donkey 😁
Just can't finish the video. First the way you pronounce and second the donkey is new carving. It cannot be like the older carvings are more realistic than the newer. And do they excavate the archaeological sites or build them?
Might the floor slabs have been part of older structures, recycled later for another building?
If you have kids you know a kid carved that donkey
Im happy theyre calling these special buildings and not temples for once
Been in the ground for donkey's years.
Bobelki Tepe excavation halted and postponed by 150 years. their wording "preserved for future generations"
these groups really hiding something, whatever they are releasing to public now are just to please crowds, nothing important.