A life-size wild boar statue found inside Göbekli Tepe’s famous Enclosure D has revealed traces of red, black, and white ...

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 ...

Göbekli Tepe thrived for around 1,500 years, but even this remarkable settlement eventually came to an end. Evidence from the ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.

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 ...

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The sprawling 11,500-year-old stone Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is the earliest known temple in human history and one of the most important discoveries of Neolithic research ...

New discoveries at Göbekli Tepe’s enigmatic sister site, Karahan Tepe, reveal a major clue to how these ancient Neolithic ...

2019 43COM 8B.54 - Statements of Outstanding Universal Value of properties inscribed at previous sessions and not adopted by the World Heritage Committee 2024 Summary of the State of conservation ...

When pilot and adventurer Barry Billcliff arrived in southeastern Turkey last November, he expected to uncover history. However, he didn't expect to question how it was being told. Billcliff, whose ...

Researchers have now used architectural analysis to discover that geometry informed the layout of Göbekli Tepe's impressive round stone structures and enormous assembly of limestone pillars, which ...