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 ...

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 ...

19:06, Fri, Mar 7, 2025 Updated: 19:14, Fri, Mar 7, 2025 There has always been plenty of mystery surrounding the world’s oldest structures. From the pyramids of Egypt to Stonehenge, we might never ...

It has long been considered the world's oldest temple and even thought by some to be the site of the Garden of Eden. But a scientist has claimed that the Gobekli Tepe stones in Turkey, built in 9,000 ...

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 ...

Reshaping previous ideas on the story of civilisation, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built by a prehistoric people 6,000 years before Stonehenge. When German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt first began ...

Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old site in southern Turkey (potentially older in parts), predates known agricultural societies and displays complex megalithic structures, challenging existing theories ...