Deep in the heart of Turkey lies Göbekli Tepe, an ancient site that predates Stonehenge by thousands of years and challenges everything we thought we knew about early civilization. With its massive ...

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 ...

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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.

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