Interesting Facts That You Know

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Fun fact: Byblos, a city in Lebanon, is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world, having been settled between 8000 and 7000BC.

The world's earliest known monumental stone temple complex is Gobekli Tepe in turkey, and it is 3000 years older than that.

Even more interestingly, DNA analysis of wheat suggests wheat was first domesticated at almost exactly the time Gobekli Tepe was built, and the ancestor of all domestic wheat was a population of wild wheat in the hill 20 miles from Gobekli Tepe.

This makes it seem tantalizing possible Gobekli Tepe was not just a civic/religious center of one of the world's first settled agricultural peoples, But that it actually is THE First civic religious center of THE First settled agricultural people.