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 ...

Earth’s Northern Hemisphere was covered in enormous Ice Age glaciers when a group of hunter-gatherers in southern Turkey began constructing the world’s first known temple. The site, called Gobekli ...

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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 ...

Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...

Photo taken on June 13, 2020 shows part of the Gobekli Tepe archeological site in Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey. Gobekli Tepe, inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List in 2018, has become a ...