But, Peters and Schmidt say, Gobekli Tepe’s builders were on the verge of a major change in how they lived, thanks to an environment that held the raw materials for farming. “They had wild sheep, wild grains that could be domesticated—and the people with the potential to do it,” S...
A mysterious standing stone structure, buried beneath a hill in southeastern Turkey has changed history as we know it. Known as Gobekli Tepe, the stone circles date back to 10,000 BC when it was thought that human civilization was only in the hunter-gatherer stage; i.e., the pre-pottery ...
The megalithic enclosures of Gobekli Tepe (Urfa, Turkey) are the most ancient stonebuilt sacred structures known so far, dating back to the 10th millennium