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 ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except ...

This rings especially true regarding Gobekli Tepe, an archaic complex in the heartlands of southeastern Turkey that could radically reconfigure our understanding of early human societies.