Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], [2] ' Potbelly Hill '; [3] Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xerabreşkê, 'Wish Hill' [4]) is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey.

Jan 22, 2025 · Göbekli Tepe is, after all, the oldest site of significance created by human beings, and that makes it one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made. Göbekli Tepe is notable for multiple reasons, but they all tie back in to its excessive ancientness.

Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic age between 9,600 and 8,200 BCE. These monuments were probably used in connection with rituals, most likely of a funerary nature.

Dec 8, 2020 · Going back to the end of the last Ice Age and first constructed around 10,000 BCE, the site is known as Göbekli Tepe (or in Kurdish, Girê Navokê meaning Pot Belly Hill, or more poetically perhaps, the Hill of the Navel).

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization

Feb 15, 2025 · Göbekli Tepe, Neolithic site near Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey. The site, believed to have been a sanctuary of ritual significance, is marked by layers of carved megaliths and is estimated to date to the 9th–10th millennium bce.

May 12, 2024 · On a hill known as Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) in southeastern Turkey, excavations led by Klaus Schmidt uncovered several large megalithic enclosures that date between 10,000 and 8000 B.C.E., the dawn of civilization and the Neolithic age.

May 7, 2015 · Gobekli Tepe is the oldest man-made place of worship yet discovered, dating back to 10,000 BCE. Found in the cradle of civilization, “Göbekli Tepe” (Potbelly Hill in English) is rightfully named.

Gobekli Tepe — 10 kilometers from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey — is the home of what some have described as the world’s oldest temple — one that perhaps predates villages.

May 9, 2023 · Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic-era archaeological location situated in Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Region. The site, which dates to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, between about 9500 and 8000 BCE, is comprised of a number of huge circular formations sustained by massive stone pillars – the earliest known megaliths in the world.