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 ...

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization Andrew Curry Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship ...

The sculptures were found at the Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe temple complexes, which are among the oldest known in the world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...