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 ...

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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 ...

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“It appears the inhabitants of Gobekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky,” Martin Sweatman, lead study researcher from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, said in a statement.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Istanbul was recently listed as the most visited city in the world; it got 20.2 million visitors in 2023. Istanbul is ...