Interested in touring Turkey with me in 2024? Sign up to the waiting list here: https://adept-expeditions.aweb.page/p/52be53ca-eb96-4790-ad77-6a858fa3cd3f When tourists enter the visitors centre at Göbekli Tepe, there are two prominent slogans on display, marketing messages used by authorities, and repeated by the media time and time again, those being “Zero Point of History” and the “First Temple in the World”. The first slogan is referring to the site roughly marking the transition between hunter-gatherer societies and sedentary farmers and the second comes from the site’s interpretation by the late, great archaeologist Klaus Schmidt. Slogans are used by authorities, the media, authors, youtubers and more, because they are the hooks to generate interest – marketing messages. Göbekli Tepe is called a ‘smoking gun’ site – the trigger for the onset of Neolithisation, but the problem is that such phrases, which are still being used in 2023, are now becoming out of date. Therefore, in this video, I'm going to look at the changing story of Göbekli Tepe, to try and understand why old slogans are still being used when new data has already changed the site's interpretation. All images ands video come from media stories in the public domain, have been supplied to me, or come from Google Images, and have been used for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video, and please leave a comment below. Thank you. Read the Faz article at: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/goebekli-tepe-ist-das-der-nullpunkt-der-geschichte-19348475.html Jens Notroff Illustrations: https://jensnotroff.com/illustrations/ Thank you to Chris Reeve for the footage from Göbekli Tepe. #ancientarchitects #gobeklitepe #göbeklitepe