Gobekli Tepe, an ancient site in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be the world's oldest known building, dating back at least 11,500 years - making it twice as old as Stonehenge. Ad.

The findings, published last month in Time & Mind, suggest that a series of V-shaped symbols carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe each represents a single day.When added up, they seem to record ...

Gobekli Tepe was first examined—and dismissed—by University of Chicago and Istanbul University anthropologists in the 1960s. As part of a sweeping survey of the region, ...

Gobekli Tepe, an ancient site in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be the world's oldest known building, dating back at least 11,500 years. That makes it twice as old as Stonehenge, ...

The Gobekli Tepe site, which features the oldest-known man-made structures, was built by hunter-gatherers between 9,600 and 8,200 BC, predating Stonehenge by more than 6,000 years.

Dr. Sweatman said that the intricate carvings at Gobekli Tepe tell the story and document the date when fragments of a comet — which came from a meteor stream — hit Earth roughly 13,000 years ago.

Göbekli Tepe’s age turned out to be more impressive still. Using nearby sites as an index, the archaeologists estimated that the site had been constructed sometime around 9,600 and 8,200 B.C.E ...

It's home to significant sites that even predate Mesopotamia — UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as Gobekli Tepe, a Neolithic settlement believed to be more than 10,000 years old with what may be ...

Pillars at the archaeological site of Gobekli Tepe in Sanliurfa, Turkey, are seen in May 2022. Located on a rocky hill in southeastern Turkey, overlooking the plateau of ancient Mesopotamia ...

At first glance, the V-shaped symbols carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe — an archaeological site in southern Turkey — don’t look like much compared to the adjacent animal shapes ...