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 ...
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12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe could rewrite civilization’s origins
On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization began. The site, known as Göbekli Tepe, is roughly 12,000 years old, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gobekli Tepe has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List, making this the 18th UNESCO recognized site in Turkey. Gobekli Tepe, considered “The Oldest Temple in the World,” has been added to the ...
What did our ancestors believe? We can never know for certain, but scientists have just published evidence from what is possibly the world's oldest temple. That evidence focuses on what ...
What did our ancestors believe? We can never know for certain, but scientists have just published evidence from what is possibly the world's oldest temple. That evidence focuses on what ...
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