Gobekli Tepe’s Pillar 43 is the most prominent of these. This captivating pillar appears to feature a large vulture, other birds, a scorpion, and additional abstract symbols.

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 was first examined—and dismissed—by University of Chicago and Istanbul University anthropologists in the 1960s. ... "We're 6,000 years before the invention of writing here," he says.

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 ...

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, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the world's oldest calendar, dating back an astonishing 12,000 years, at the ancient settlement of Gobekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey. The site ...

The Gobekli Tepe site is the oldest man-made structure ever found. It was constructed between 9,600 and 8,200 BC, predating Stonehenge by more than 6,000 years.

The site sits in the core of the Fertile Crescent, a region of the Middle East historically considered the birthplace of farming, writing and more. Yet, Gobekli Tepe was a pre-agricultural society; it ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...