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Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...

Researchers have discovered part of the mystery behind the construction of the earliest known temple in human history. The Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is a 11,500-year-old ...

Once hailed as the “Zero Point of History,” Göbekli Tepe’s story is shifting fast. New evidence is challenging the ...

Could the ancient symbols of Easter Island share a connection with the carvings of Göbekli Tepe? New theories suggest these ...

The Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, widely recognized as the world’s oldest temple and a cornerstone for understanding the dawn of human civilization, has once again revealed a monumental secret.

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 ...

In the 1960s, anthropologists from Istanbul University and the University of Chicago were conducting a survey of southeastern Anatolia when they stumbled upon a mound peppered with limestone slabs, ...

The 11,500-year-old archaeological site was unharmed in the disaster, which has killed over 35,000 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. reading time 2 minutes The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ...

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 depicting the ...