The REAL Reason they are trying to stop people digging at Göbekli Tepe - JRE #2215 Graham Hancock

Joe and Graham discuss how the government in Turkey are putting measures in place to stop archaeologists digging at Gobekli Tepe.

Joe Rogan Experience #2215 - Graham Hancock

[christopherrobin]

Why plant a small forrest of trees right over the site? The roots and the moisture they capture will destroy anything that is below them as they grow.

[aaron]

Not excavating GT isn’t what I find suspicious it’s planting things and paving concrete on the site I find suspicious because that can destroy the site just as much to more than excavation.

[dangerdoberman]

Covering up knowledge should be a crime against humanity.

[goldenretrieverdad]

Gobekli Tepe flips the script on the beginning of civilization. They can't bear to have to rethink how complex humans were years before they thought possible.

[donscheid]

The most suspicious aspect is the planting of trees over it, the tree roots will destroy more than digging will.

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[billstapleton]

Gobekli Tepe embarrassed historians. These people base their careers on their facts, that mankind started civilization, in the cradle of civilization. beginning around 4, 000-5000 BCE. Gobekli Tepe dates back 11, 800 BCE. This threatens their power, their income and politics.

[mergrew]

I remember about twenty years ago watching the chief Egyptian archaeologist explaining how the ancient Egyptian people built the various structures. He said that the stone was shaped using other stones and copper tools. They are still maintaining that story. once they publish an explanation they are very reluctant to change the narrative, even when it’s proven to be false.

[andyw]

Thank you. Joe, archaeology graduate here, I’ve always enjoyed Graham’s ideas and feel they need to be aired fairly. None of us have all the answers, archaeology is always theoretical and Graham deserves to be heard like everyone else.

[metmehbad]

They have built a giant museum site with roads/paths above it, which is ridiculously stupid, even for the current government in Turkey. We are all awed by it, authorities wont tell anyone shit. Turkish guy here...

[David-morg]

If you have something to hide you hide it .

[smetljesm]

The main reason is to discover things so slow that it doesn't interfere with career paths of individuals

[flywheel]

As I remember it, an archeologist woman discovered tools, evidence of settlement, cooked animal bones, pottery shards on a site in Mexico that she and her team scientifically dated 13, 000 years ago. She immediately lost her grant for exploration, had her Professor position at the University removed, and was vilified by the mainstream for her findings. The Mexican government came to the site she and her team excavated carefully over many years and bulldozed it. This actually happened.

[DougCutler-tney]

I get a kick out of the people that automatically dismiss Graham's ideas because they contradict the group think of the archeologists working with government grants.

[DaveMiller]

They don't want us seeing what those sites will reveal.

[ADg-lems]

Knowledge delayed is knowledge denied.

[joeortega]

They don't want us to know the truth ever

[EarthScienceTV]

The discovery of Göbekli Tepe has truly rattled the academic community. Historians have long held that civilization began around 4, 000 to 5, 000 BCE within the so-called 'Cradle of Civilization.' Yet, Göbekli Tepe's dating to approximately 11, 800 BCE challenges these entrenched beliefs, potentially undermining the authority and livelihoods of those who have built careers on traditional historical timelines.

[markanderson]

Gobeckli Tepe isn’t just a random archeological dig. It is a time capsule that they buried so we could find it when the time is right. I can’t imagine a better time than now, in a hundred years we may have passed our opportunity.

[MrJiggerG]

Will not the tree roots cause damage and make it even harder to safely uncover in the future. I call bullocks!