The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the world's oldest temple.

Found in the south of Turkey is Gobekli Tepe, part of the Mesopotamian civilisations. Translating as “Potbelly Hill”, it predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years with the human-made structures, with ...

Reshaping previous ideas on the story of civilisation, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built by a prehistoric people 6,000 years before Stonehenge. When German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt first began ...

The findings, published last month in Time & Mind, suggest that a series of V-shaped symbols carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe each represents a single day.When added up, they seem to record ...

Gobekli Tepe was used more or less continuously from 9500 to 8000bc, the same span of time as between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the advent of space travel.

But a scientist has claimed that the Gobekli Tepe stones in Turkey, built in 9,000 BC and 6,500 years older than Stonehenge, could instead be a giant home 'built for men not gods'.

Gobekli Tepe’s circular temples have changed the way archaeologists look at the beginnings of civilization. Photograph by Vincent Musi, Nat Geo Image Collection World's Oldest Temple to Be Restored ...