12,000-year-old 365-day calendar discovered in Scotland

UK experts Archaeology has discovered the world’s oldest calendar, which was carved on a pillar about 12,000 years ago.

Calendars discovered at the Gobekli Tepe site in the Anatolian mountains in Turkey show that these people kept accurate records of dates 10,000 years before dates were documented in Greece. In Greece, records of dates were kept since 150 BC.

By analyzing these traces Edinburgh A university-led team discovered 365 V-shaped symbols on a pillar at the site, each representing a day.

Researchers say that this calendar also shows 12 lunar months and 11 extra days.

Additionally, the carvings show the collision of a comet with Earth that wiped out the giant animals 13,000 years ago and ushered in a brief ice age that lasted 12,000 years.

The collision of a comet with Earth is believed to have given rise to human civilization. New trends in agriculture and religion began.

Dr Martin Sweetman of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, who led the research, said: ‘It seems that the inhabitants of Gobekli Tepe had a keen eye on the sky, which is to be expected, as they The world of was destroyed by the collision of the comet. This event may have stimulated civilization by encouraging the start of a new religion and the development of agriculture to cope with the cold climate. It is possible that the act of keeping records of what they saw may have been the beginning of writing thousands of years later.’

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Gobegli Tepe, home to the world’s oldest man-made structures, was built by foragers between 8200 and 9600 BC. The site is more than 6,000 years away from Stonehenge, Britain’s prehistoric monument.

What exactly was the purpose of the monument’s construction has baffled experts, but many experts believe that the monument was built for religious rituals, such as funerals.

The researchers say that the symbols found at the Gobekli Tepe site also distinctly represent the longest day of summer. For this purpose, the letter ‘V’ of the English language is depicted around the neck of a bird-like beast.

The findings, published in the journal Time and Mind, show that these ancient humans used the gradual shift in the Earth’s axis to record the dates of star clusters in the sky. Affects movement.

These symbols also seem to represent the lunar and solar cycles. Researchers say about these signs that they combine the movements of the sun and the moon to form the world’s oldest calendar.