Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis
What Karahan Tepe tells us about human beliefs 12,000 years ago
8 min readOct 3, 2023
Maybe you’ve heard of Göbeklitepe. The findings, rolling in since the 1990s and accelerating in the 2010s, regarding what amounted to a completely pre-agricultural temple complex with impressive carved artworks of humans and animals and indecipherable symbols which hint at a highly developed and deeply meaningful world-belief system lost to time without any other trace than this.