The T-shaped limestone pillars standing in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe represent the oldest known megaliths built by human hands, erected during the 10th millennium BC by hunter-gatherers who ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working in southeastern Turkey have recovered a T-shaped pillar carved with a human face at Karahantepe, a site the Turkish government dates to roughly 12,000 years ago. The discovery, ...

Archaeologists are excavating an ancient Neolithic site in Turkey that is believed to represent one of the earliest found in the region, potentially even predating the famous site of Göbekli Tepe. The ...

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 ...

In the hills of southeastern Turkey lies a site so ancient, it's turning our understanding of civilization on its head and leading to conspiracy... An ancient archaeological site meets conspiracy ...

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 adjacent animal shapes depicting the ...

A mystery is slowly emerging from the hills of southeastern Turkey. An ancient site there built by hunter-gatherers thousands of years before humans has intrigued science for decades. More recently, ...

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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 ...