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 ...

The imagery found at Göbekli Tepe, adorning T-pillars and some small finds (stone vessels, shaft-straighteners, etc.), is also found at contemporaneous sites in the Upper Mesopotamian region, thus ...

There has always been plenty of mystery surrounding the world's oldest structures. From the enigmatic pyramids dotting Egypt to the perplexing formation of Stonehenge, we may never fully ...

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Until recently, Britain's Stonehenge was thought to be the world's oldest set of stone monuments. But a recent discovery in the Turkish region of Göbekli Tepe has been estimated to be over 6,000 ...

Located in the Germus mountains, near the Syrian border, Gobekli Tepe consists of massive stone circles with T-shaped pillars carved from limestone. These structures were built by hunter ...