Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery. Berthold Steinhilber Six miles from Urfa, an ancient ...

Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization began. The site, known as Göbekli Tepe, is roughly 12,000 years old, which ...