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There’s a place in southeastern Turkey that most people have never heard of — a windswept hilltop called Gobekli Tepe. It was built long before the pyramids, long before organized farming. And it’s ...

The Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, widely recognized as the world’s oldest temple and a cornerstone for understanding the dawn of human civilization, has once again revealed a monumental secret.

In the 1960s, anthropologists from Istanbul University and the University of Chicago were conducting a survey of southeastern Anatolia when they stumbled upon a mound peppered with limestone slabs, ...

Once hailed as the “Zero Point of History,” Göbekli Tepe’s story is shifting fast. New evidence is challenging the ...

The 11,500-year-old archaeological site was unharmed in the disaster, which has killed over 35,000 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. reading time 2 minutes The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ...

It’s one of the oldest and most mysterious sites on Earth—but much of what you’ve heard about Göbekli Tepe is wrong. These are the four biggest myths.

There are countless megalithic sites around the world, but while Stonehenge may be the most famous, know this: it is not the oldest or biggest. The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back about 11 ...