Prehistoric Armenia

Turkish authorities are investigating the appearance of a mysterious monolith in southeastern Turkey.

Efforts at the ancient site of Göbeklitepe, known as the world's oldest temple, now must focus on conservation rather expanding excavation, said Turkish and German archeologists working at the 12,000-year-old dig site in southeastern Turkey.

Göbeklitepe, the prehistoric site situated 15 kilometers away from the city of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey represents a reset in terms of our knowledge about civilization, according to an expert. It is more evidence that Anatolia's contribution to the rise of civilization is much greater than we thought, said Nezih Başgelen.

The inclusion of the “world’s oldest temple” Göbeklitepe, located in the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa, in UNESCO’s World Heritage List will strengthen efforts to protect the site, the head of Turkey’s commission to UNESCO has said. Click through for the story in photos...

The ancient site of Göbeklitepe located in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa is getting ready to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List with a new roof protection. 

The ancient site of Göbeklitepe located in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa is getting ready to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List with a new roof protection. 

Ancient symbols carved into stone at an archaeological site in Turkey tell the story of a devastating comet impact that triggered a mini ice age more than 13,000 years ago, scientists believe.
Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC.

For decades, beer partisans have argued that fermented rather than baked grain led humans to begin sowing the fields, settling down, and abandoning their hunter-gatherer ways. I have found none of their arguments persuasive; there just wasn’t a smoking gun to support it one way or another.

The ancient site of Göbeklitepe, one of the world's most important archaeological sites boasting a history of 12,000 years, is set to soon graduate from UNESCO's tentative list of World Heritage Sites to the permanent list. 

As part of a Turkish-UNDP joint project, sculptors have engraved the findings of Göbeklitepe on T-shaped stones to show both the way to the site and the first steps of human civilization A path to Göbeklitepe, a 12,000-year-old site in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa often referred as the "point zero of history," has been decorated with large stone plaques that tell about the ongoing exc