Foxes, boars, birds, and snakes are carved into the limestone pillars. Some pillars even feature human arms, hands, and belts ...
A new study in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association argues that a skeleton found inside a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey may belong to Ælfwig, an abbot who died around 1020.
The village of Sayburç, in Turkey, is home to a settlement dating back roughly 11,000 years, featuring mysterious carvings ...
Unseating the role of God as Creator and denying the pan-cultural belief that human beings are in a divine image downgraded ...
The first graves found at Göbeklitepe suggest many of its 928 scattered human bone fragments slid downhill from graves under homes.
Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels. Credit...Pablo Amargo Supported by By Sarah Weinman Chelsey Calhoun, the police detective introduced in “The Return of Ellie ...
The ancient site is known for massive carved stone pillars, but was once thought to be “the center of a death cult” Bilal Seckin / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Researchers identified Göbekli ...
The excavation site of Göbekli Tepe with several circles of stone monuments. Credit: Lee Yu Kit. For years, the dead at Göbekli Tepe appeared mostly in pieces. Archaeologists had recovered hundreds of ...
A recent discovery at Turkey’s famous Göbekli Tepe is offering new clues about the enigmatic ancient site’s purpose. Often characterized as “the world’s first temple,” the site, first excavated in the ...
For decades, archaeologists at Göbekli Tepe found human bones scattered through its monumental buildings but no intact graves to explain them. Now the first two excavated Göbekli Tepe burials offer a ...
The German Archaeological Institute announced a new study by Julia Gresky and Lee Clare in PLOS One. The research concerns two burials dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period in the middle of the ...
The 11,500-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey features three unexplained drawings on a limestone pillar. There’s debate about whether the “handbag” images constitute the world’s first architectural ...
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