In Urfa, an 11,000-year-old lifelike statue surfaced beside sacred springs, hinting at a deep prehistoric world surrounding Gobekli Tepe. From boar houses and serpent carvings to skull fragments and ...

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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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 ...

If you think you’ve already known the most mysterious places in the world, you might want to think again for there is an enormous complex composed of stone pillars unearthed in Turkey that baffle ...

Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old site in southern Turkey (potentially older in parts), predates known agricultural societies and displays complex megalithic structures, challenging existing theories ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered ancient statues, dating back 11,000 years, that challenge our understanding of pre-agricultural communities. The statues include a life-sized sculpture of a ...