A British YouTuber Discusses the Gobekli Tepe Statue in a Wall

Jimmy Corsetti's shrill shouty video with its entitled attacks on Turkish and German excavators of Gobekli Tepe is an embarrassment for the amatuer community. Not all videos in the genre are as bad. Matt Stibson's Ancient Architects YouTube channel (629K subscribers) is another level entirely. The author is typically very well-informed, well-read, articulate, and clearly thinks through the implications of the material. I recommend his works for those who want a less sensationalised, less superficial, less shouty approach to trying to understand the past. He deserves more followers, drop him a "subscribe", you'll not regret it. He uses the same (kinds of) monuments as the demented pseudoarchaeologists at the other end of the amateur archaeology content creators arc but the effects and information value are of quite a different quality. He often quotes sources which is more than most YouTubers do. (This is not to say I always agree with his conclusions, but he always draws them based on the evidence, the way he sees it.)

So his presentation three months ago of the same statue as Corsetti was ranting about tells you where it was found, gives its context in relationship to a second one found earlier (which Corsetti seems unaware of and confuses pictures of the two) and generally thoughtfully discusses its significance and function [but in a totally different way to the MAGAmerican].

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Posted on You Tube by Ancient Architects Sep 23, 2025.

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So far it has only 125K views (Corsetti in a few days has already accumulated 401,932 views - it seems there are more haters than knowledge seekers in [GobekliTepe-focussed] archaeo-YouTube).