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Pillars Beneath the Hill
Paperback
Publisher: Jeremy Bufford
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before agriculture or cities, on a windswept hill in ancient Anatolia, a small circle of exceptionally gifted individuals raised the world's first stone temple. Each towering T-pillar became a living memorial to an ancestor, a defiant act of memory against ephemeral life.
What began as a shared vision of remembrance soon bred ruthless ambition. The Skull-Keepers obsessed with eternal fame and power over the living through the dead clashed with the Sun Culture that revered natural cycles, balance, and humility before the turning world. Across generations, greed, envy, and ideological war turned the sacred sanctuary into a contested stronghold.
In this sweeping tale of Göbekli Tepe's hidden history and the earliest modern humans, towering ambition collides with the forces of memory and nature. The result is a fateful decision that would bury one of humanity's greatest creations-and the dangerous power it represented-beneath the earth for millennia.
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