Even long before the days of the world's oldest civilizations, humans were creating settlements and even building impressive, ...

Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield findings. Researchers found living quarters of an ancient civilization, which disproved earlier theories that the site served solely as a ceremonial ...

Göbekli Tepe is located in Upper Mesopotamia, a region which saw the emergence of the most ancient farming communities in the world. Monumental structures, interpreted as monumental communal buildings ...

Göbekli Tepe is one of several enigmatic ancient sites discovered in the dusty hills around Şanlıurfa in modern-day Turkey, close to the border with Syria. It features a complex of stone ...

Carvings on a stone pillar at the 12,000-year-old archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey may represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet impact, ...

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Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and altered after death, and possibly ...

The carvings recently deciphered at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey suggest the monument could also represent the world's oldest solar calendar, according to new research.

The carvings may also depict an ancient comet strike that occurred 13,000 years ago. A devastating ancient comet strike in Turkey appears to be etched into what may be the world's oldest lunisolar ...