While at Göbekli Tepe last year, we made a pilgrimage to the famous 11,00 year old carvings at Sayburç - here is a report of our adventure.

The media got quite excited in early 2023 about how the little man in the Sayburç carvings was holding himself. We too reported on the discovery - but I hope we managed to emphasise that the significance was that it seems to be the first known example of a narrative scene recorded in a carving.

Little did we know that thanks to support through our Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge project (see below), we would be in Turkey within the year staring the little fella in the face.

Anyway, here is our overview of the day we visited Sayburç Man and our take on the significance of the carving and the archaeological site as a whole.

00:00 - Introduction & Overview
01:42 - How Sayburç Man became famous
04:02 - Getting to Sayburç
05:12 - Sayburç village
11:58 - First impressions of Sayburç Man and the carvings
17:15 - Do the carvings tell a story?
26:26 - The bull/aurochs and man carving
31:01 - The significance of the carvings
33:18 - This is a ‘special building’ amongst many.
36:00 - Modern re-use of T-Pillars at Sayburç
38:00 - Rounding up and goodbyes

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