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, 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.

The wild boar statue, which is carved from limestone, was found at Gobekli Tepe and dates to between 8700 B.C. and 8200 B.C. It measures 4.4 feet (1.4 meters) long and 2.3 feet (0.7 m) high, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...