Damla Selin Tomru: Gobekli Tepe, Mysteries of the Neolithic Era

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

At the dawn of human history, on a sun-blazed hill in Southeastern Anatolia, an ancient mystery was carved into stone. Göbeklitepe, older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids, stands as a silent witness to the birth of belief itself. Yet beyond its massive pillars and enigmatic carvings lies another story, one of human longing, memory, and return.Damla Selin Tomru invites readers on a journey that transcends time and geography. Her exploration begins as a personal pilgrimage and expands into a dialogue with archaeologists, mystics, and scientists who each see Göbeklitepe through different eyes.

Through these voices the reader discovers not only the earliest temple known to humankind but also the enduring human need to create meaning amid the unknown.This is not merely a book about archaeology; it is an intimate meditation on transformation. From the dust of the Fertile Crescent to the silence of the excavation trenches, Tomru uncovers how faith, art, and civilization were born together.Göbeklitepe reminds us that every journey outward, to ancient ruins and forgotten symbols, is also a journey inward. In the meeting between past and present, Göbeklitepe: Mysteries of the Neolithic Era opens the door to a profound realization that what we seek in the stones of history has always lived within us.

Damla Selin Tomru is one of Turkey’s most vocal experts on the subject of Tas Tepeler, the high culture that created extraordinary ritual centres at places like Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Sayburc. Her aim is to bring together the archaeologists working at these sites and the ancient mystery writers that see them as evidence of a lost page of human history. Her new book, titled Gobekli Tepe, does just that giving equal time to both sides of the divide so that the reader can make their own minds up on the true nature of this gradually emerging picture of discovery, which is constantly revealing new finds and new mysteries.

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1:24.8	And we are officially launching our 2026 Earth Ancient Grand Egyptian Tour.
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2:04.6	at the largest statuary in the world, including Ramsey's 2. We'll visit a number of temples,
2:11.2	including Hathar, Karnak, Luxor. We'll be at Tannis, one of the oldest sites in the world, and we'll be viewing the ruins of that site.
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