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 ...
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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Göbekli Tepe is often presented as an isolated sanctuary that appeared almost inexplicably at the beginning of the Neolithic, but new excavations reveal a much larger story. Domestic structures, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: YouTube In southeastern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a Neolithic sculpture that appears to show a person ...
The statue of a human riding a leopard was found during excavations over the summer. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism About 11,000 years ago, a Neolithic artist living in modern-day Turkey ...
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 ...
Three unusual shapes carved across the upper part of Göbekli Tepe’s famous Pillar 43 have been compared to handbags, baskets and buckets for years. A new interpretation proposed by Turkish lecturer ...
Claims that archaeologists are deliberately reburialing Göbekli Tepe to conceal history misunderstand a common preservation practice. Some excavated areas have been backfilled to protect fragile ...
The enigmatic Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, home to some of the world’s earliest advanced megalithic construction and sophisticated symbolic art, continues to surprise archaeologists.
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