Twelve thousand years before the pyramids, hunter-gatherers raised towering carved pillars on a hilltop in southeastern ...

The historic site of Gobekli Tepe, which is investigated on the latest Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens this week heads to the ancient Turkish site of Gobekli Tepe — which some Ancient Astronaut ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, anthropologists from Istanbul University and the University of Chicago were conducting a survey of southeastern Anatolia when they stumbled upon a mound peppered with limestone slabs, ...

The carvings may also depict an ancient comet strike that occurred 13,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

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 ...

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 ...