Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them ... A great synthesist, Childe wove together his colleagues' disconnected facts into overarching intellectual schemes. The most famous of these ...

Schmidt would devote the better part of his career to excavating the site, now known as Göbekli Tepe or “Potbelly Hill” in Turkish. A year after his initial visit, the archaeologist returned ...

Nearly 13,000 years ago, carvings were etched into a large stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in southern ...

Göbekli Tepe is one of several enigmatic ancient sites discovered in the dusty hills around Şanlıurfa in modern-day Turkey, close to the border with Syria. It features a complex of stone ...

The oldest buildings in the world have existed for thousands of years and some are still in use. Their remains are used to ...

Evidence of this cataclysm might be found in the famous stone carvings at Göbekli Tepe, now considered the oldest solar ...

Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and altered after death, and possibly ...

The ancient monument of Göbekli Tepe in Türkiye is truly one of the most magnificent ancient marvels on our planet. The temple complex that thrived as a cultural epicenter more than 10,000 years ...

Animal symbols, such as those used at Gobekli Tepe in modern day Turkey, represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to mark dates and events such as comet strikes, analysis from ...

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