Just up the road from Göbekli Tepe, we find Mount Nemrut, known in ancient times as Nimrod's Mountain.
On top of this mountain stand a series of large stone figures, all beheaded. Their heads can be found ceremoniously laid out, right side up, at a distance from their bodies, many of them with their noses cut off.
Behind the statues is a large pyramid shaped heap of rubble, clearly covering something up. From the look of it, the same people who covered up Göbekli Tepe, covered up the monument at Mount Nemrut too.
Whoever did the covering up had habits very reminiscent of those practiced by certain religious zealots even today. Chopping off heads and cutting off noses is still practiced by such people. The sight of something superior to their own limited capabilities seem to infuriate them to the point that they just have to either destroy it or cover it up.
What was covered up by the savages was clearly far beyond what they could produce. Unable to destroy it, or take it apart, beyond chopping off a few heads, they found it more practical to heap enormous amounts of rubble on top of the monuments.
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