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It has become a pet peeve
In making a comment under a news article one day, we criticized the archaeologists labeling an ancient structure a temple. We got one response from a person who said that when his archaeology class had trouble categorizing an artifact, their professor just said to label it religious.
This is often the case when archaeologists uncover ancient structures. They do not have a clue as to the purpose of the building so they label it a temple. It has gotten old and tiresome reading about these bad decisions on the part of modern archaeologists.
Not every ancient structure, Gobekli Tepe included, is a temple. It is just a convenient way to classify material remains that archaeologists do not know what to do with or know anything about.
The ancients did not just eat, sleep & pray
This is the idea that some archaeologists present to the world. Their constant labeling of every ancient structure, outside of a home, or a temple presents the idea that the ancients did not do much in their daily lives.
We know that is not true but it is a convenient method archaeologists use when they find out that the ancient world was not that much different from the modern age.
The ancient people of any civilization had the same issues to worry about as modern civilizations’ citizens. The first and foremost one is survival. Yes, while some people did a lot of praying to their gods in the ancient world, they also spent time working, running businesses, and so on.
The many ancient buildings that are classified as temples could be banks, stores, repair shops, fashion outlets, clothing cleaning businesses, prisons, court buildings, and many other business options. We do not know what they were used because the documentation is not there to explain anything.
While many government buildings may be palaces, they may also simply be government buildings housing all the offices that the king, pharaoh, or other rulers needed to enable them to govern.
There are many options available to explain the different structures archaeologists cannot explain.
A design is just a design
Far too often the designs on the walls of some of the ancient structures labeled as temples are misinterpreted. Without any ancient contemporary manuscripts describing the purpose of those symbols and other designs, these designs are vulnerable to interpretation from archaeologists who have no idea what the designs are for.
Usually, these modern archaeologists take the religious route but that may not be accurate. Many 19th and early 20th century buildings came with statues of gargoyles and other creatures.
Would that make those skyscrapers religious in nature or a temple? Highly unlikely to modern people because we have the documentation telling us what those designs and statues are for.
Those statues and designs are for artistic purposes and the same can be said for the ones found at Gobekli Tepe and other mysterious sites. It is possible that a design is a design and not there for any religious purpose.
Our theory is that Karnak is not a temple but an early example of a museum. That would explain why so many Pharaohs had their deeds recorded in the same location. A temple would not make sense.
A figurine may only be a figurine
This is another pet peeve. To many archaeologists take ancient figurines and declare them to be goddesses even though there is no evidence supporting this claim. All they find in their excavations is one or possibly more figurines lying in the dirt.
These figurines are vulnerable to what the archaeologist wants to call them. But what is discovered may not be a representation of a goddess. One reason is the quality of the craftsmanship is not there.
Many of those figurines discovered look like a beginner’s effort for class grades and not something made for religious purposes. Another reason they may not be goddesses is that they may simply be made to decorate a house.
Modern women like pretty objects and it is highly likely that ancient women wanted their homes to look nice as well. It is not out of the question that many ancient households held decorative objects just to show off wealth or interior design skills.
Finally, those figurines could have been found in a storefront selling those items or a manufacturing plant trying to meet demand or boost revenue. There are plenty of logical and rational explanations for the existence of a figurine other than being turned into an unknown goddess.
The past may not have been as spiritual as thought
The problem with investigating the past is that archaeologists have few constraints in their interpretive work. They actually have a lot of freedom on how to classify what is discovered and often most archaeologists do not agree with each other.
This is seen in how different archaeologists view the past and what has been found. Not every building is a temple and not every figurine is a goddess. One of the reasons for this discrepancy in understanding the past is that some archaeologists say that time was different from the modern era.
It is hard to see how they come to this conclusion but it is there influencing what is said about the past. Aside from technological advances, the past is basically the same as the present.
People had to work to survive, kids needed to be educated, food needed to be grown, businesses needed employees and on it goes. The more you study the past with an open mind, the more you can see that the ancient world varies little from the modern one.
Archaeologists really do not have secret information that gives them insight into what took place in the past. They just do not have the ancient contemporary documentation to support their it’s a different type of civilization claim.
When they do find documentation, those tablets, parchments, etc., show how similar ancient life was to modern life. The discovery of ancient libraries has proven this true.
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