Two of the oldest temples in the world—dating back more than 8,000 years—have recently been found at a site called Ain Ghazal, outside of Amman, Jordan. The site is already famous for its lifelike, nearly life-size plaster statues. With the two temples discovered in 1995 and 1996, as well as other finds, Ain Ghazal gives us a view of prehistoric religion that once would have been impossible. We can even trace changes in worship from period to period that provide important information about social changes in Ain Ghazal thousands of years before the invention of writing. Ain Ghazal was […]
