Gobekli Tepe Location
Mighty_Emperor said:
carfax6 said:
Good suggestion, emps, but the wikipedia on Göbekli Tepe doesn't have location coordinates and not much else. Maybe the writer of the article would know.
It gives the general location. I am unsure how helpful getting zoomed in on the exact spot would be as it is a tell which are (pretty by definition) large mounds. Potentially impressive from the ground (I've been to Bin Tepe, although there probably weren't a thousand - bin, which looked impressive when you look up at them, or out and across at them, but I can't imagine there'd be much to see from the air).
The map on page 46 of FT shows the site as being south-east of Urfa.
But according to
Wikipedia, it's located
15KM north-east of Urfa.
I wondered which was right, so I went to the
German Archaeological Institute's web sitehttp://www.dainst.org/index_642_de.html to see what they had to say. It's in German of course. So I enlisted the help of
Babelfish which translated the opening paragraph thus:
"The 15m powerful and for instance 300m in the diameter measuring fruehneolithische Goebekli Tepe is for instance to 15km northeast the city?anl?urfa on the highest point of an elongated mountain course. He is to be noticed from from far away as dominating landmark. From here the view in the north and the east is enough up to the Taurusgebirge and to the Karaca there?, in the south the Harranebene opens until Syria. However in the west the horizon is limited already soon by close hoehenzuege, which push themselves between?anl?urfa and that far valley of the Euphrates lain in the west."
Well, if
they say north-east ... and the general location is further affirmed by the Google Earth member zenekites, who's helpfully posted
a Google Earth location marker on the Google Earth Community web site. If you've got Google Earth, you can just click it and it'll open GE and take you to it. I don't know where he (or she) got it from, but they're described as "archaeologist" in their GE Profile, for what it's worth - still, if that's the case, they're probably close, if not right on the button.
You're right though, Mighty Emperor - not really much to see from above, principally because it's in a low-res area. But still, it gives me a buzz to know I can look down right on it, tilt it, zoom over it, see it in relation to other parts of the planet. I can see, for example, that the FT map's location south-east of Urfa would place it in a green, fertile valley, whereas the north-east region is dry and mountainous.
Ain't the digital domain wonderful?
If you prefer entering your own coordinates, try these:
Lat 37°13'12.00"N
Long 38°55'12.00"E
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