Millennial temples almost always contain inscriptions and symbols that scientists cannot read for a long time. One of these symbols is located on the territory of the most ancient structure of Gebekli Tepe, where the "vulture stone" is located: it depicts a person surrounded by symbols of death, a vulture and a scorpion.
For a long time it was believed that the column represents one of the funeral rituals of that time.
But the latest research by a group of scientists from the University of Edinburgh has suggested a new hypothesis that speaks of the oldest event that turned the world upside down. The assumption is roughly consistent with direct historical observations. About 14 thousand years ago, the Earth fell under the influence of the Allered Warming. Another two thousand years later, during the late Dryas period, an equally rapid cooling began. Scientists speculate that the dramatic climate change was due to the fall of a meteorite.
Researchers from Scotland compared the images on the stone and columns of Gebekli Tepe with the celestial constellations and suggested that the ancient temple was a kind of observatory, and the "vulture stone" itself depicts the fall of a meteorite and the chaos that followed.