Sorry, but Sanatan Dharma was not an ancient civilization with 12,000 years of history. It is a phrase that translates as "eternal order" and has been proposed as an alternative, "native" name for Hinduism.
The oldest yet discovered evidence of civilization is the Göbekli Tepe temple in Turkey. The site was occupied and used as long as 13,000 years ago.
It's discovery is exciting in that it pushes back the roots of civilization 3-5 thousand years and that the discovery opens more questions than it answers:
• No one knows who they were.
• Other than the assumed religious meaning, what the site was for.
• Where did they go? There was no precedence for the culture that built it and no evidence for their influence after them.
• Why was the site deliberately buried and abandoned?
I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did if they didn't even understand that temples are much more accessible to your people if you build them on land
The oldest yet discovered evidence of civilization is the Göbekli Tepe temple in Turkey. The site was occupied and used as long as 13,000 years ago.
It's discovery is exciting in that it pushes back the roots of civilization 3-5 thousand years and that the discovery opens more questions than it answers:
• No one knows who they were.
• Other than the assumed religious meaning, what the site was for.
• Where did they go? There was no precedence for the culture that built it and no evidence for their influence after them.
• Why was the site deliberately buried and abandoned?