Göbekli Tepe: Turkey’s 9600 BCE temple built by hunter-gatherers Discovered in the 1990s and extensively studied by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt told the BBC, It’s ancient, about 9600 BCE, long ...

The villagers of Göbekli Tepe likely didn't belong to a creepy skull cult—although a fascination with skulls definitely was a thing during the Neolithic.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: YouTube In southeastern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a Neolithic sculpture that appears to show a person ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.

Researchers have reported the first intact burials at Göbekli Tepe (Göbeklitepe) in Sanliurfa, Turkey, in a publication dated 21 September 2026. The discovery adds new evidence to the debate over ...

Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery. Berthold Steinhilber Six miles from Urfa, an ancient ...

Experts say the 11,500-year-old symbols may be drawings of an ancient domed building.

In the 1960s, anthropologists from Istanbul University and the University of Chicago were conducting a survey of southeastern Anatolia when they stumbled upon a mound peppered with limestone slabs, ...

Archaeologists are excavating an ancient Neolithic site in Turkey that is believed to represent one of the earliest found in the region, potentially even predating the famous site of Göbekli Tepe. The ...