Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 5: Gobekli Tepe

We examine the so-called "zero point of history," the "first temple," the "world's oldest building," the massive and deeply ancient complex of stone-age megalithic monuments on a hilltop in Turkey, which since being uncovered in the 1990s, has dramatically overturned received ideas about the beginnings of civilization. Correction: France & Britain allied with the Ottomans against Russia in the Crimean War of the 1850s; in other conflicts France & Britain sought territorial and diplomatic gains at the expense of the Ottomans. Please sign up as a patron to hear patron-only lectures, including the previous installment of "Doorways in Time" on The Library of Ashurbanipal: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632