Long before anyone stacked a single sarsen at Stonehenge, groups of hunter-gatherers in what is now southeastern Turkey were ...
Researchers studying thin carbonate coatings on limestone pillars at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey have built an independent dating framework that places the site’s monumental stone enclosures ...
Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery. Berthold Steinhilber Six miles from Urfa, an ancient ...
Earth's Northern Hemisphere was covered in enormous Ice Age glaciers when a group of hunter-gatherers in southern Turkey began constructing the world’s first known temple. The site, called Gobekli ...