Göbekli Tepe, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Germus mountain range of Turkey's Anatolia region, is dotted with T-shaped ...

Long before anyone stacked a single sarsen at Stonehenge, groups of hunter-gatherers in what is now southeastern Turkey were ...

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 ...

Gobekli Tepe in south-eastern Turkey is an early Neolithic hilltop site where circles of massive stone pillars rise from an ...

We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple ...

In the arid hills of southeastern Turkey, an archaeological site called Karahan Tepe is forcing a reassessment of when ...

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 ...

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 ...

In southeastern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a Neolithic sculpture that appears to show a person astride a leopard.

Gobekli Tepe near Sanliurfa presents carved limestone pillars and megalithic enclosures from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. What survives here is older than the farms around it. Moderner ...

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, ...