Buried beneath a quiet hill in southeastern Turkey lay a sanctuary built thousands of years before farming, pottery, or cities. This chapter follows the chance discoveries and overlooked clues that ...
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 ...
On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of towering stones has quietly rewritten the story of civilization. Göbekli Tepe ...
(Fulya OZERKAN/AFP/AFP) On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's ...
There’s a place in southeastern Turkey that most people have never heard of — a windswept hilltop called Gobekli Tepe. It was built long before the pyramids, long before organized farming. And it’s ...
US public broadcaster PBS’s documentary strand Nova and France Télévisions have ordered a feature doc about the world’s oldest known temple.