Locations // Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe

Pre-pottery Neolithic megalithic complex in southeastern Turkey, dated c. 9500 BCE — predating Stonehenge by ~6,000 years.

ALSO KNOWN AS: Gobekli Tepe · Potbelly Hill

Excavated by Klaus Schmidt from 1995 until his death in 2014. UNESCO World Heritage site since 2018.

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AN-26001 // Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey

Göbekli Tepe

Pre-pottery Neolithic megalithic complex in southeastern Anatolia, dated to c. 9500 BCE — predating Stonehenge by ~6,000 years and contemporaneous with the end of the last Ice Age. Forces a reconsideration of the chronology of human civilisation.

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