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 ...

What sets Göbekli Tepe apart from other ancient monuments is the sheer scale of its construction and the advanced skillset required to carve and transport these stones, which were sourced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Göbekli Tepe is a 12,000-year-old site on the UNESCO World Heritage List, famous for its T-shaped monolithic pillars adorned with wild animal figures. Göbekli Tepe is a 12,000-year-old site on ...