GOBEKLITEPE

The world-famous German magazin ,Der Spiegel, wrote in a cover story that archeologists in eastern Turkey have found evidence of the Garden of Eden in ruins which date back eleven thousand years ago. This article,which used as asource Legend, best-selling book by the English writer David Rohl, proposes that Adam and Eve also lived in this region after being sent out of the Garden,for eating the forbidden fruit.
The remains of the Garden of Eden  have supposedly been found in Turkey. This story, whose verocity continues to be debated ,has been portrayed for centuries by artists and writers.
The latest issue of Der Spiegel has devoted eleven pages to this topic. The wheat of Karaca Mountain, the ruins found at Gobekli tepe have been sited as foundational proof that the Garden of Eden was located in Eastern Turkey. After Adam and Eve were ejected from the Garden. Soil was first cultivated and agriculture was first done in this region. In research done by the Max Planck Institute from Germany, 68 varieties of wheat were compared and it was discovered that a species  of wild wheat which is still grown on the slopes of Karaca Mountain is the ancestor of all cereal grains.

THE BEGINNING OF CIVILIZATION

According to David Rohl’s thesis,in the Stone age eleven thousand years ago, nomadic people lived and hunted  in what is now Eastern Turkey ,Syria ;Irak and the border region of Iran.
Later poeple began to  live in settlements and till the soil.This signalled the birth of civilization  and the remains of the ancient temples at Gobeklitepe are proof that it was here where early civilization was most advanced.

 TWO OF THE FOUR RIVERS ARE HERE

Two of the four rivers which are mentioned in the Bible as flowing out  of the Garden of Eden are the Tigris and the Euphrates.
In addition , the Bible tells us that it was here where Adam first planted wheat and the foundation for agriculture was laid. Abel began farming here the nomadic people who had survived by hunting and gathering for  the first time laid down their hunting weapons and began to live in settlements and till the soil, people learned to make their own homes and began making clay pottery. They learned to domesticate animals and how to grow and care for the crops which they had planted. This transition from a nomadic lifestyle to the emergence of settlements, was a giant step in the evolution of man.
According to the Max Planck Institute this first took place in Eastern Turkey.

 STEP - BY - STEP TO A SETTLED EXISTENCE

The most recent excavations in Turkey and Syria show step-by-step how mankind passed from a nomadic lifestyle to a settled existence. 1-In 10.000 BC , people in this region lived by hunting and gathering. This region had plentiful herds of animals and abundant plant life. 2-In approximately 7.500 BC, as the numbers of animals began to decline, a hunger problem began to be seen. Fort this reason, people began to gather and settle in villages and turned to looking to plants for nourishment . They were forced  to a completely different lifestyle by hunger. People learned to sow wheat. Bending over to work the soil and plant  wheat was so strenuous that people’s skeletal form began to change.Domesticating animals was difficult as well . Being confined inside fences was a shock for animals. The process of beginning (to harvest animal products took a long time.

Gobekli Tepe