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 ...

The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants ...

“Possibly, their attempts to record what they saw are the first steps towards the development of writing millennia later.” The Gobekli Tepe site, which features the oldest-known man-made ...

“It appears the inhabitants of Gobekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky ... saw are the first steps toward the development of writing millennia later.” The carvings also track cycles ...

Back in 2018, archaeologist Dr Çiğdem Köksal-Schmidt - wife of Dr Klaus Schmidt, who led the Gobekli Tepe fieldwork until his death by heart attack at the age of 60 in 2014 - slammed the use of ...

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 ...

From Gobekli Tepe (one of the most important sites in ... civilization known for monumental pyramids, hieroglyphic writing, ...

The New School offered the first academic creative writing workshop in 1931 and pioneered a new philosophy of education. The idea: Students would make their own lives and their own stories part of ...

There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences. This is a workshop in factual writing and what has become known as literary non-fiction, emphasizing writing assignments ...

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Creative writers say they find fulfillment in the writing process. "I believe that making art is a human need, and so to get to do that is amazing," says Andrea Lawlor, an author who this year ...

“It appears the inhabitants of Gobekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky,” Martin Sweatman ... Possibly, their attempts to record what they saw are the first steps toward the development of writing ...