(Fulya OZERKAN/AFP/AFP) On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's ...

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 ...

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, ...

At first glance, the V-shaped symbols carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe — an archaeological site in southern Turkey — don’t look like much compared to the adjacent animal shapes depicting the ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization began. The site, known as Göbekli Tepe, is roughly 12,000 years old, which ...

According to World Atlas, Göbekli Tepe sits on a low limestone ridge in southeastern Turkey, not far from the Syrian border, and continues to unsettle long-held ideas about early human societies. The ...

The 11,500-year-old archaeological site was unharmed in the disaster, which has killed over 35,000 people and destroyed thousands of buildings. Reading time 2 minutes The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ...