I am standing in a drizzly square where a man is eating a quiche. A girl cycles past in a red raincoat, talking quietly on her phone. Everything is mild, ...

Yes, we talk about NASA’s HAVOC concept for Venus, but we also talk about terraforming, prescription drug ads, using your head as an antenna, Gobekli Tepe, and more. Enjoy!

List of the Oldest Temples in the World 1. Gobekli Tepe Initially thought to be a medieval burial site, German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt stated that Gobekli Tepe is the oldest known temple in the ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization.

He called Göbekli Tepe “a cathedral on a hill,” and imagined it might have been a place where hunter-gatherers bid farewell to their dead or staged ceremonies to emphasize their shared identity.

So far, only about 10% of the Göbekli Tepe site was excavated, and it is likely to take around 150 years to excavate the full site. Archaeologists estimate that there are still 15 more enclosures ...

One of the oldest attractions is Gobekli Tepe in Upper Mesopotamia, dated as far back as the 10th century BC. It was home to hunter-gatherers and recent discoveries are suggesting even older sites.

Göbekli Tepe, a massive archaeological site nestled in the rolling plains of southeastern Turkey, is considered the world’s oldest known temple complex, predating Stonehenge by approximately ...

In a study published in June 2024, Sweatman argues that Gobekli Tepe, not unlike Stonehenge, may have functioned like a lunisolar calendar — an argument he supports by the selective positioning ...

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, host to one of the world's oldest ancient farming communities, paid a lot of attention to the skies. The world's oldest solar calendar might have been found there.

Ancient people may have created these carvings at Göbekli Tepe to record the date a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago—or 10,850 BCE, with some of them falling in Arabia.