The First Graves at Göbekli Tepe Just Revealed Who Buried It

For more than ten thousand years, the oldest temple on Earth lay buried, and the world was told its own builders filled it in on purpose. Then the team digging it wrote that archaeologists had built that story themselves. This is how the buried-temple story was made, and how it came apart: a survey that took the hill for a graveyard, rubble that turned out centuries too young, a ring its builders fought to save, pillars that lean the same way, and two graves found by a drainage ditch for a tourist roof. 0:00 The oldest temple on Earth 0:26 The graveyard nobody dug 2:09 The rubble that was too young 2:58 The story that outlived its author 4:59 Building D 6:16 The confession 7:38 The witnesses 9:36 Who buried it Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMOgmkKMJ4U6pQSB6-TffQ?sub_confirmation=1 SOURCES Gresky & Clare, First burials give insights into mortuary rites at Göbeklitepe (PLOS One): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0358979 Clare, Göbekli Tepe: a brief summary of research at a new World Heritage Site (DAI e-Forschungsberichte): https://publications.dainst.org/journals/efb/article/view/2596/7095 DAI, the Tepe Telegrams, the first 20 years of research: https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/?p=861 DAI, the Tepe Telegrams, dating Göbekli Tepe: https://dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2016/06/22/how-old-ist-it-dating-gobekli-tepe/ Archaeology Magazine, Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers?: https://archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2021/features/turkey-gobekli-tepe-hunter-gatherers/ Archaeology Magazine, Intact Burials Excavated at Göbekli Tepe: https://archaeology.org/news/2026/09/25/intact-burials-excavated-at-gobekli-tepe/ IFLScience, the first human burials at Göbekli Tepe: https://www.iflscience.com/the-first-human-burials-have-been-excavated-at-gobekli-tepe-challenging-old-theories-about-the-11500-year-old-site-84742 Gizmodo, the skull cult reconsidered: https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-thought-this-10000-year-old-temple-belonged-to-a-skull-cult-they-were-wrong-2000818162 Hürriyet Daily News, construction around Göbeklitepe stirs debate: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/construction-around-site-of-gobeklitepe-stirs-debate-129089 Al-Monitor, Göbekli Tepe survives the earthquakes: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/02/prehistoric-world-heritage-site-gobekli-tepe-survives-turkey-earthquakes Göbekli Tepe (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe Klaus Schmidt (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schmidt_(archaeologist) #GobekliTepe #Archaeology #AncientMystery