And because those artifacts closely resemble others from nearby sites previously carbon-dated to about 9000 B.C., Schmidt and co-workers estimate that Gobekli Tepe's stone structures are the same age.

These buildings at the site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey are more ... found scattered amid the site’s rubble to similar artifacts known from other sites, researchers determined ...

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.

In the 1960s, anthropologists from Istanbul University and the University of Chicago were conducting a survey of southeastern Anatolia when they stumbled upon a mound peppered with limestone slabs ...

The Gobekli Tepe site is the oldest man-made structure ... Researchers compared the pillar carvings to symbols found on other ancient artifacts to confirm that the newest discovery did represent ...

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 adjacent animal shapes ...

Dr Martin Sweatman, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, who led the research, said: “It appears the inhabitants of Gobekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky, which is to ...

Gobekli Tepe, an ancient site in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be the world's oldest known building, dating back at least 11,500 years. That makes it twice as old as Stonehenge, which was ...