Back in 2018, archaeologist Dr Çiğdem Köksal-Schmidt - wife of Dr Klaus Schmidt, who led the Gobekli Tepe fieldwork until his death by heart attack at the age of 60 in 2014 - slammed the use of ...

Schmidt would devote the better part of his career to excavating the site, now known as Göbekli Tepe or “Potbelly Hill” in Turkish. A year after his initial visit, the archaeologist returned ...

Erected into a series of massive circular structures, the site of Göbekli Tepe, as it is known today, became one of the world’s earliest known megalithic sites, and what motivated its builders to ...

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 ...

Netflix dropped the trailer Wednesday for the upcoming second season of Graham Hancock’s epic “Ancient Apocalypse.” In this ...

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The oldest buildings in the world have existed for thousands of years and some are still in use. Their remains are used to ...

The timekeeping system, unearthed at the Gobekli Tepe site in mountains of Anatolia in Turkey, suggests people were accurately recording dates 10,000 years before it was documented in Greece in ...

In the ancient ruins of Gobekli Tepe, in eastern Turkey, archaeologists have discovered 11,000-year-old stone troughs. What these troughs stored may surprise you (02:43) Explore Subscribe ...

Year: 9 thousand years BC.. In Turkey, there is also a curious, mysterious monument - Göbekli Tepe rocky trip, whose name is literally translated as a 'bellied hill'. This most ancient monument is a ...