Here We Go Again! Mysterious Monolith Appears At An Ancient Site In Turkey

Just when we thought we had seen the end of recurring monolith saga, another one has turned up in Turkey¡¯s southeastern province of ?anl?urfa.

The three-meter-high metal slab, resembling mysterious monoliths that have been popping up in several locations around the world, has now appeared near G?beklitepe, a 12,000-year-old temple which recently became a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Security forces were called to the scene as curious locals sought to get a look at the monolith, which resembles a mysterious object which appeared in a desert in Utah in the United States and Romania last year, but then vanished.

Gendarmerie troops - Turkey's military force with law enforcement duties - cordoned off the area, an empty land, and brought in experts from the local culture and tourism authorities.

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Experts said the inscription on the slab, which was only 45 centimeters wide, was in the ancient G?ktš¹rk alphabet and meant ¡°Look at the sky if you want to see the Moon.¡±

Fuat Demirdil, the owner of the land, told reporters that he noticed a metal block stuck in the ground when he came to his field and informed gendarmerie units.

Explaining that they were very anxious as the people of the neighborhood, Demirdil wanted the metal block to be removed from his land and to determine by whom it was brought to the area.

An investigation is underway to find out who installed the metal slab in the middle of the empty land.

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The first, unexplained metal monolith was discovered in Utah's remote Red Rock Country on November 18.

Since then, additional monoliths have turned up across the country in California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and around the world in places like Romania, the United Kingdom, India, Poland, Finland and Ukraine.

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