Gobekli Tepe – Part 8

This extract is from ‘Travel Tales from Exotic Places like Salford’

At some point the stone base has been damaged meaning that two of the birds have lost their heads, but their bodies are preserved. The bodies of all seven birds exhibited no discernible chipping marks that you might expect with a stone implement and indeed it looked to me as though the carvings had been sanded as they seemed so smooth. The only other side of the square base that I saw didn’t contain any carvings, so why was so much lavish ornamentation confined to one side of the base? The answer to this, and many other
questions, remains to be found in the secrets that Gobekli Tepe still keeps to itself.