Indeed, this is the crux of the matter: is Göbeklitepe just a bunch of old T-shaped stones standing in the dirt or another jewel in the Turkish crown and an international game changer set to revise the conventional wisdom of human history?

Arther and Ayşe looked beyond the students to see what they’d come to see. It was again slightly underwhelming. Down below feet level stood a rather forlorn looking T-shaped stone. Ayşe felt a tad sorry for this uncovered and apparently bondaged T-shape upright. It looked captured. Wooden and metal beams and rods hold the pillar in place now the supporting earth has been removed.

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