“Over here on the right, you see a spaceship landed recently,” he says with a grin. He’s joking. Mostly. But more on that in a minute. We’re in the Urfa plain, a dry, dusty stretch about 25 miles from ...

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 ancient ...