Widely believed to be the oldest temple in the world, Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye dates back a whopping 12,000 years. Ever since archaeologists first surveyed the site in 1963, researchers ...

Göbekli Tepe is located in Upper Mesopotamia, a region which saw the emergence of the most ancient farming communities in the world. Monumental structures, interpreted as monumental communal buildings ...

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Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks ...

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