In a study published in Time and Mind based on the work of researchers from the University of Edinburgh who write that markings at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey not far from the Syrian border, a 12-13,000-year-old temple-like complex of pillars with intricately carved symbols, might indicate the makings of a solar calendar that tracks seasons and years. The carvings also track cycles for both the Moon and the Sun, which pre-date other calendar finds of this type by several millennia.

For more than one hundred thousand years Homo Sapiens’s worshiped nature Gods (sun, moon, rain Gods etc) and super-human shaped Gods like Zeus, or local rulers: “Do not give up your gods; do not give up Wadd, nor Souwa, nor Yaghoos, and Yaooq, and Nassr” (Qur’an 71:23-27).

Adam in his childhood may have lived in Göbekli Tepe before he traveled south to Arabia. Göbekli Tepe is in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border. It is an ancient complex of temple-like enclosures adorned with intricately carved symbols that could record an astronomical event that triggered a key shift in human civilization, researchers say.

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Turkey may represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, some experts suggest.

The research, published in Time and Mind., suggests ancient people were able to record their observations of the sun, moon and constellations in the form of a solar calendar, created to keep track of time and mark the change of seasons.

Fresh analysis of V-shaped symbols carved onto pillars at the site has found that each V could represent a single day. This interpretation allowed researchers to count a solar calendar of 365 days on one of the pillars, consisting of 12 lunar months plus 11 extra days.

The summer solstice appears as a separate, special day, represented by a V worn around the neck of a bird-like beast thought to represent the summer solstice constellation at the time. Other statues nearby, representing other deities, have been found with similar V-markings at their necks.

Ancient people may have created these carvings at Göbekli Tepe to record the date a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago—or 10,850 BCE, with some of them falling in Arabia. The comet strike may have ushered in a mini ice age lasting over 1,200 years, wiping out many species of large........

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