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The phallus of the greatest archeological finding of the new millenia: an untold story of Gobeklitepe dated back 12 milleniums

International Journal of Impotence Research volume 33, pages 504–507 (2021)Cite this article

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The archeologic era has been in consensus and highly enthusiastic that “Göbeklitepe” zone is the known earliest temple of human civilization dated back to 10 millennium BC [1,2,3,4]. The more exciting part of this story for the readers of the present journal was that the presence of fantastic sexual archeological art that needed to be speculated in this almost confirmed worshiping area [5, 6].

To reach the location where the present story has taken place in World map; Asia minor, in other words, Anatolia, between the Asia and Europe should be found initially, then make closer to the ancient city Sanliurfa, known antiquely as Edessa near the river Euphrates of Mesopotamia. At a city map, the small village of Örencik should be noticed in just about 12 km away from the North-East of the city center. Göbeklitepe,—the meaning can be translated as “The hill with belly button”, and the possible speculations of the authors of this name will be discussed later—was a desert zone just a few 100 m upside the village.

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Fig. 1: The ithyphallic (The archeological term of erected penis) figure (~9 000 BC).
Fig. 2: The carved predators on the monuments.
Fig. 3: The “anthropomorphic” human figure (0.7 m).
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All these present actors with mentioned names had already passed away at the time of publication process of present manuscript. Mankind is thankful to them for their effort to contribute to understanding the evolution of human civilization via Göbeklitepe.

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  1. University of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Hospital, Dept. of Urology, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. University of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty, Istanbul Samatya Hospital Dept. of Obstet. & Gyn, Istanbul, Turkey

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Verit, A., Verit, F.F. The phallus of the greatest archeological finding of the new millenia: an untold story of Gobeklitepe dated back 12 milleniums. Int J Impot Res 33, 504–507 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-020-0300-2

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