Graham Hancock

Cyprus is another example I was mentioning about how it was settled in what appeared to have been planned, organized settlement events near the end of the last Ice Age. Again, you find that same iconography that you find at Gobekli Tepe turning up there. Which iconography specifically? The tendency to use T-shaped pillars, to use certain designs like a V-shaped necklace that

This kind of iconography and the structures, these circular structures, semi-subterranean structures that are so characteristic of Gobekli Tepe, they're found there as well. They're found all across the region. Jericho in the Jordan Valley is absolutely intriguing.

This kind of iconography and the structures, these circular structures, semi-subterranean structures that are so characteristic of Gobekli Tepe, they're found there as well. They're found all across the region. Jericho in the Jordan Valley is absolutely intriguing.

This kind of iconography and the structures, these circular structures, semi-subterranean structures that are so characteristic of Gobekli Tepe, they're found there as well. They're found all across the region. Jericho in the Jordan Valley is absolutely intriguing.

The massive tower there, which again dates back right to the end of the last ice age, a huge megalithic tower with the world's oldest known structure. megalithic stairway that runs up inside it. So what's emerging as a result, if Gobekli Tepe hadn't been found, none of this would have happened. But it's led to a widespread interest in the whole area.

The massive tower there, which again dates back right to the end of the last ice age, a huge megalithic tower with the world's oldest known structure. megalithic stairway that runs up inside it. So what's emerging as a result, if Gobekli Tepe hadn't been found, none of this would have happened. But it's led to a widespread interest in the whole area.

The massive tower there, which again dates back right to the end of the last ice age, a huge megalithic tower with the world's oldest known structure. megalithic stairway that runs up inside it. So what's emerging as a result, if Gobekli Tepe hadn't been found, none of this would have happened. But it's led to a widespread interest in the whole area.

So while excavation may have stopped at Gobekli Tepe or may have slowed down, it is continuing elsewhere across the region. And to be fair to archaeologists, we need to recognize that.

So while excavation may have stopped at Gobekli Tepe or may have slowed down, it is continuing elsewhere across the region. And to be fair to archaeologists, we need to recognize that.

So while excavation may have stopped at Gobekli Tepe or may have slowed down, it is continuing elsewhere across the region. And to be fair to archaeologists, we need to recognize that.

Yes. So far, the ones that have been found, Gobekli Tepe is unique. And I think it's clear now that Gobekli Tepe itself was the end of a process, not the beginning of a process. It was something that marked... It was a marker.

Yes. So far, the ones that have been found, Gobekli Tepe is unique. And I think it's clear now that Gobekli Tepe itself was the end of a process, not the beginning of a process. It was something that marked... It was a marker.

Yes. So far, the ones that have been found, Gobekli Tepe is unique. And I think it's clear now that Gobekli Tepe itself was the end of a process, not the beginning of a process. It was something that marked... It was a marker.

It was something that brought together the best of everything that they'd accumulated and created it in one place and left it there, finally at the end, burying it, sealing it as a time capsule, which then was untouched for more than 10,000 years before Klaus Schmidt opened it up in 1996. I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is. It's a time capsule.

It was something that brought together the best of everything that they'd accumulated and created it in one place and left it there, finally at the end, burying it, sealing it as a time capsule, which then was untouched for more than 10,000 years before Klaus Schmidt opened it up in 1996. I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is. It's a time capsule.

It was something that brought together the best of everything that they'd accumulated and created it in one place and left it there, finally at the end, burying it, sealing it as a time capsule, which then was untouched for more than 10,000 years before Klaus Schmidt opened it up in 1996. I can't help feeling that's precisely what Gobekli Tepe is. It's a time capsule.

It's a memorial to a lost time. And I think that what we're looking at in that whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely lost civilization. I think it passed on its cultural genes right there in that area of Turkey and down into the Jordan Valley and Cyprus. And not only there, also the Indus Valley civilization.

It's a memorial to a lost time. And I think that what we're looking at in that whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely lost civilization. I think it passed on its cultural genes right there in that area of Turkey and down into the Jordan Valley and Cyprus. And not only there, also the Indus Valley civilization.

It's a memorial to a lost time. And I think that what we're looking at in that whole area is the outcome of contact with an earlier largely lost civilization. I think it passed on its cultural genes right there in that area of Turkey and down into the Jordan Valley and Cyprus. And not only there, also the Indus Valley civilization.

It's incredible iconography, which shows a man between two felines. It's a very striking image. You see a man and two tigers or leopards on either side of him. And he may be holding them apart. He may be gripping them in some way. What is this so Jamie can find it? You can find it on the Gebel al-Arak knife handle from Egypt.