Suruthi
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1,385 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was believed that it then took thousands more years for us humans to begin building large-scale megalithic structures.
For example, Stonehenge and the pyramids were both built around the same time, about 5,000 years ago.
Gigantia in modern-day Malta was built, we think, about 6,000 years ago.
the walls of Jericho in the Jordan Valley, which was believed to be the world's most ancient monumental structure, was built roughly 9,000 years ago.
And all of this makes sense.
You don't start building giant structures until you've nailed farming and social organisation, so basically until you have a large enough population, a surefire endless supply of food, and the necessary specialisation of skills to build things.
This is The Shorthand.
So, let's start with the basics.
Göbekli Tepe translates to Potbelly Hill in Turkish, because it looked like a fat man lying on his back with his belly in the air.
And for thousands of years, it wasn't thought of as much more than that, Fat Man Hill.
It was a moderate-sized hill in the southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey, on which local farmers used to graze their sheep.
The truth of what lay beneath people's feet had been lost for generations.
But there was something drawing Kurdish people to this pot-bellied hill.
The story goes that there was a single tree which stood on top of the hill, and Kurdish people would go up there at the spring equinox and perform ceremonies.
But it wouldn't be until 1994 that the reality of the secrets under that belly were finally revealed to the world.
He went with the latter.
Pretty soon, Schmidt had started excavating, and carbon testing confirmed everything he had hoped for.
The time period in which the construction of this structure had started was, as Saru said, beyond ancient.
It's known as the Neolithic pre-pottery era, 12,000 BC.
I am becoming more and more convinced that I'm actually a reincarnated whale.
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