Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the oldest and most mysterious archaeological discoveries ever made, dating back nearly 12,000 years before modern civilization officially began. Massive carved ...

Deep in the limestone hills of southern Turkey, a people without cities or farmland raised some of the most ambitious stone ...

Were someone to ask you what is the oldest monument known to mankind, most people would say the Pyramids of Egypt or perhaps, Stonehenge. However, Gobekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 7,000 years and ...

Gobekli Tepe has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List, making this the 18th UNESCO recognized site in Turkey. Gobekli Tepe, considered “The Oldest Temple in the World,” has been added to the ...

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 ...

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. ...

Ozan Kose / AFP via Getty Images At first glance, the V-shaped symbols carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe — an archaeological site in southern Turkey — don’t look like much compared to the ...