There’s a recent video clip going round showing workers chiselling Great Pyramid stone… but it’s not as it seems,

They are chiselling modern cement/render aka restoration work, NOT the original pyramid stone.

Nobody is destroying the pyramid… but it is a bit of a PR blunder 🙄

I created a BlueSky Account for my YouTube channel as well. You can follow at @ancientarchitects.bsky.social - thank you!

If anyone has or sees a copy of ‘Klaus Schmidt: Göbekli Tepe a Stone Age sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia’ for sale in English, please let me know! Thanks.

#KarahanTepe has been updated on Google Earth / Google Maps with the best clarity I’ve seen. You get a great view of the excavations. Search on your phone/tablet/computer - fantastic!

**NEW VIDEO** Göbekli Tepe: How the T-Pillars Were Quarried and Made. Watch now and please subscribe: youtu.be/ZzairzQcBsw

Works of art from #KarahanTepe, now on display at Şanlıurfa Museum 🤩

If you’re interested in Karahan Tepe, Sefer Tepe etc, check out the new Taş Tepeler #StoneMounds app in the App Store!

The unfinished T-pillar at #KarahanTepe, part-quarried but still attached to the limestone bedrock, just a stones throw away from the ancient settlement.

I’ve spent the day researching the geology of Şanlıurfa and Göbekli Tepe, and writing a script about how the T-pillars were quarried from the bedrock. I’m enjoying this more than I thought I would.