{"id":194173,"date":"2024-08-06T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/carvings-at-gobeklitepe-could-be-worlds-oldest-calendar"},"modified":"2024-08-06T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T03:23:46","slug":"carvings-at-gobeklitepe-could-be-worlds-oldest-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/carvings-at-gobeklitepe-could-be-worlds-oldest-calendar","title":{"rendered":"Carvings at G\u00f6beklitepe could be World\u2019s Oldest Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carvings-at-gobeklitepe-could-be-worlds-oldest-calendar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts suggest that markings on a stone pillar at the 12,000-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/arkeonews.net\/new-discoveries-in-gobeklitepe-and-karahantepe-a-human-sculpture-with-a-realistic-facial-expression-found-in-karahantepe\/\">G\u00f6beklitepe archaeological site<\/a> in T\u00fcrkiye probably represent the oldest solar calendar in history, having been established as a memorial to a catastrophic comet strike.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study from the University of Edinburgh, the markings at the location might be a record of an astronomical event that marked a significant turning point in human civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s G\u00f6beklitepe is well-known for its array of enormous, T-shaped stone pillars adorned with animal and abstract symbol carvings. According to recent analysis, some of these carvings might have functioned as a kind of calendar that tracked important celestial events and marked the positions of the sun, moon, and stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts suggest that markings on a stone pillar at the 12,000-year-old G\u00f6beklitepe archaeological site in T\u00fcrkiye probably represent the oldest solar calendar in history, having been established as a memorial to a catastrophic comet strike. According to a recent study from the University of Edinburgh, the markings at the location might be a record of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}