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 ...

I finally made it to Gobekli Tepe — the site that’s older than Stonehenge and the pyramids combined. What I saw there wasn’t just mind-blowing… it was timeline-breaking. This site isn’t the end — it’s ...

A mystery is slowly emerging from the hills of southeastern Turkey. An ancient site there built by hunter-gatherers thousands of years before humans has intrigued science for decades. More recently, ...

GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey — Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the promise of something far stranger than your typical vacation snap. ...

From Urfa’s castle, Gobekli Tepe still dominates the horizon, a harsh, waterless hill that somehow became a magnet for monument building. With no signs of daily life, wild animal feasts, and carvings ...