hello everybody and welcome to ancient architects please subscribe now to get the latest ancient history news and independent research from around the world researching ancient sites to try and make sense of a past civilization is no easy feat because as i explained in my last video that looked at the claims gobekli tepe is the world's oldest temple there are so many theories hypotheses and ideas already out there i want to make sense of quebec tepe but when formulating my own ideas it means having to review not just a handful but all of the ideas that have been put forward and recently i looked into a claim that made the headlines in NUMBER_TOKEN. in august of that year new scientists ran an article that was titled world's oldest temple yes there's that soundbite again built to worship the dog star the headline alone in a credible scientific publication does sound very certain it sounds like it's a mystery solved but since i started the ancient architects channel it seems that nobody is talking about it is the idea still credible i thought it was worth taking a closer look i won't go into the full back story of what gobekli tepe is you can see my previous videos on the subject for an overview but in a nutshell gobekli tepe dates to around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN years ago and consists of a number of circular enclosures each with decorated t-shaped pillars in the surrounding wall with two large parallel t-shaped pillars in the center as many of you know the most recent archaeoastronomy hypothesis comes from dr martin sweptman of edinburgh university who details his theory in papers on his youtube channel and also in his book titled pre-history decoded but in NUMBER_TOKEN giulio magli of the polytechnic university of milan also looked to the sky for answers like sweatman magley simulated what the sky would have looked like from turkey at the time gobekli tepe was built and he made a curious observation and it concerns the bright star sirius also known as the dog star sirius is the brightest object in the sky excluding the sun the moon venus and jupiter magley told new scientists how sirius was so prominent to the ancient egyptians that the rising and setting of the dog star was the basis for their calendar interestingly at the latitude of quebec tepe sirius would have been below the horizon until around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN bc and this was when it would have suddenly popped into view a bright star not seen in this part of the world for millennia as you may or may not know the wobble of the earth's axis means the positions of the stars in the night sky do change over time stars rise and set at different points in different time periods while some completely fall out of view and others appear for the people of quebec tepe in NUMBER_TOKEN bc according to magli they would have observed the birth of this star on the horizon and it's a very bright star at that with only a small amount of light pollution from the top of a hill this would have surely been a notable event and according to magley it could have even spawned a new religion on noting this observation magley modelled three of the circular enclosures at gobekli tepe and drew an imaginary line between and parallel
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