A stunning discovery in southern Turkey is raising new questions about the origins of timekeeping and the early human ...

Göbekli Tepe and the Vulture Stone Prophecy We are the descendants of an ancient civilization; one which mastered technology, ...

The ancient site of Göbekli Tepe in central Turkey. Photo: Chris McGrath (Getty Images) The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated south-central Turkey and northern Syria did not damage the ...

Strange carvings at world’s oldest monument suggest civilisation began after devastating comet strike. Göbekli Tepe, 12,000-year-old temple-like complex in Turkey, was likely built to record ...

At around 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and altered after death, and possibly ...