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 ...

“Over here on the right, you see a spaceship landed recently,” he says with a grin. He’s joking. Mostly. But more on that in a minute. We’re in the Urfa plain, a dry, dusty stretch about 25 miles from ...

Long before the pyramids, before writing, before recorded history they built this. Massive stone pillars carved with animals, ...

Were someone to ask you what is the oldest monument known to mankind, most people would say the Pyramids of Egypt or perhaps, Stonehenge. However, Gobekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 7,000 years and ...

The world's oldest calendar, carved onto an ancient pillar around 12,000 years ago, has been discovered by UK archaeologists. The timekeeping system, unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in mountains of ...

Ozan Kose / AFP via Getty Images 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 ...

19:06, Fri, Mar 7, 2025 Updated: 19:14, Fri, Mar 7, 2025 There has always been plenty of mystery surrounding the world’s oldest structures. From the pyramids of Egypt to Stonehenge, we might never ...

GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey — Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the promise of something far stranger than your typical vacation snap. ...