Göbekli Tepe, the world’s oldest known temple, may hold clues to humanity’s earliest religious beliefs. Built over 11,500 years ago, its massive T-shaped pillars, intricate animal carvings, and ...

The study extends previous interpretations of Göbekli Tepe’s carvings, associating various animal symbols with constellations. But this symbolism is not isolated. Nearby, the Karahan Tepe also ...

Animal symbols, such as those used at Gobekli Tepe in modern day Turkey, represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to mark dates and events such as comet strikes, analysis from ...

Pillar 43 from Göbekli Tepe depicting a vulture with its wings spread. Vultures were not only the most important birds in the iconography of Early Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups, they were also ...

The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back about 11,000 ... The pillars contain carvings of animals such as foxes, boars, gazelles, snakes and vultures. The carvings also include depictions ...

Located in Brittany, the Carnac stones are approximately 6,000 years old. This vast collection of about 3,000 stones includes rows, circles, and isolated menhirs, some reaching 21 feet in height.