"Gobeklitepe is an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates a significant stage in human history," it added. Gobeklitepe is located at the northern edge of the Fertile Crescent, an area often described as the "Cradle of Civ...
Gobekli Tepe was first examined—and dismissed—by University of Chicago and Istanbul University anthropologists in the 1960s. As part of a sweeping survey of the region, they visited the hill, saw some broken slabs of limestone and assumed the mound was nothing more than an abandoned medieval ...
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ANKARA, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Gobeklitepe, one of the oldest temples in the world, has been registered on UNESCO World Heritage list, Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The decision was announced at the 42nd UNESCO World Heritage List Committee Meeting held in Ba...
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ANKARA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared 2019 as "the Year of Gobeklitepe" in a bid to boost the archeological site of Gobeklitepe, dubbed "the ground zero for human history." Located in Turkey's southeastern province of Sanliurfa near the Syrian border...