Like the coronavirus, monoliths refuse to lag behind by 2020.
The discovery of a new mysterious metal plate in Turkey on Friday was a setback to a fleeting rage of the old days of November and December. At the time, a shiny metal monolith appeared in the Utah desert without explanation, followed by copiers from California to Romania.
Perhaps art projects or the manifestation of pandemic-induced boredom caught the monoliths the world’s attention for a short time. It remains unknown who created many of them, or why they were created, but they have largely disappeared from cultural interest as the world focused on other things, such as the presidential transition, a coup in Myanmar or the Netflix show. ” Bridgerton “.
But the youngest monolith has something his predecessors did not have: armed guards.
Military police have launched an investigation into the people who planted the monolith in a rural area of Sanliurfa, a province in southeastern Turkey, according to DHA, a local news agency. The military police and village guards – citizens who are paid by the government and who work with the military police – watched as the investigation unfolded and protected the monolith from threats, reports DHA.
Unlike previous monoliths, this one has an inscription. In the Gokturk alphabet, an ancient Turkish language, it reads: “Look at the sky, see the moon.”
The monolith, which is about 10 meters long and overlooks a wheat field and olive trees, was discovered by the owner of the field on Friday, DHA reports. The field is not far from Gobekli Tepe, a UNESCO-protected archaeological site. Gobekli Tepe is the decade for ‘The Gift’, a Turkish television series whose second season began streaming on Netflix last year.
Curious people flocked to the area to see the monolith; one couple comes from Edirne, more than 900 kilometers away.
To speculate about the motives of its creators would be foolish. In the cases of at least two former monoliths, groups have emerged to take responsibility, including a group of four artist-makers who said they created one in California as a ‘piece of guerrilla art’. Theories abound about the roots of other monoliths, from art to the supernatural.
And it’s easy enough to create that those with the will and a little specialized skills can make one of their own.