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Bright Insight argues in a livestream that Gobekli Tepe will not be opened on any schedule that matters now. The host calls it the oldest megalithic site. A 1995 aerial, from before digging, shows almost no trees. Later views show four orchards. He says archaeologist Oliver Dietrich agreed those trees stand on buried ruins and that roots were meant to limit erosion. Planting them after radar had mapped the remains is, for the host, a choice against a full dig. He puts the open share near 5 to 10 percent of about 22 acres, with roughly 72 pillars up and radar allowing as many as 200. A Turkish board comment, as he cites it, saves the rest for later generations and allows another 150 years. Roofs and roads already sit on the ruins. Money is not the obstacle in his telling. A 2016 Dogus Group deal with Turkey’s antiquities ministry, announced at Davos through the World Economic Forum, had put 15 million dollars into digging and tourism by 2018. That delay is the host’s own reading.
Key points
- Bright Insight says four orchards planted after 1995 stand on ruins that radar had already mapped.
- The host says Oliver Dietrich confirmed the trees overlie buried remains and called the roots a shield against erosion.
- He puts the opened area near 5 to 10 percent, with most pillars still underground and no large dig scheduled.
- A reported further century and a half, plus roofs and roads on the hill, is his sign that the work has been delayed.
- He treats a Dogus Group partnership from 2016 as proof that tourism money, not an empty budget, sets the pace.
Short quotes
this proves that there's absolutely no plan at least indefinitely to fully excavate the site
Bright Insight, Bright Insight on leaving Gobekli Tepe buried
The host reads the new orchards as a decision to leave most of the hill unopened. Watch at 10:21
they are expected to continue for another 150 years
Bright Insight, Bright Insight on leaving Gobekli Tepe buried
He cites a public timetable that stretches the digging across another century and a half. Watch at 25:12
they planted four Orchards of trees on top of known ruins
Bright Insight, Bright Insight on leaving Gobekli Tepe buried
Those plantings, after radar had mapped the buried work, are the center of his case. Watch at 28:30
Video by Bright Insight. Watch on YouTube.