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 ...
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 ...
Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, the Tillya Tepe treasure is a glittering assemblage consisting of thousands of golden pieces from all over the ancient world. In 1978 ...
Evidence of this cataclysm might be found in the famous stone carvings at Göbekli Tepe, now considered the oldest solar ...
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