Below is a checklist to show some of the requirements a place must have in order to be the “great tower” from which the Jaredites came. If Gobekli Tepe meets a requirement, it gets a check mark. Maybe some day I’ll add some of the proposed Babylonian ziggurats to see how many (if any) check marks they would get…
| The Jaredites’ great tower had: | Ref. | Gobekli Tepe had it? | Source |
| status as world’s first known temple | Gen 11 | ☑ | |
| construction before elephants went extinct in North America | 9:19 | ☑ | |
| construction before horses went extinct in North America | 9:19 | ☑ | |
| many people “scattered” and led away from it | 1:33 | ☑ | |
| people already divided into tribes (brothers, friends, and their families) | 1:41 | ☑ | |
| construction soon after a cataclysm | Gen 6-11 | ☑ | |
| skull cult/severed heads | 8-9 | ☑ | |
| location west of Mt. Ararat | Gen 8:4, 11:2 | ☑ | |
| writing that links it to the Tower of Babel (“gate of God”) | ☑ | link |
For more about the Gobekli-Jaredite theory, go here.
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