Heart Happy (cathy_edgett) wrote,
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The Birth of Religion

 The June issue of National Geographic is fascinating as usual but I was particularly intrigued with this article on Gobekli Tepe, the oldest known example of monumental architecture, built 11,600 years ago.

"Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Gobekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-acto knife."  

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text
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