Klaus Schmidt

The southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, famous for its historic sites Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe — two of the world's oldest Neolithic settlements — will host Türkiye's inaugural World Neolithic Congress from Nov. 4 to 8.

The congress is expected to draw nearly 1,000 academics from 64 countries and 487 institutions.

The excavation works in Göbeklitepe, a 12-000-year-old Neolithic archaeological site in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, may continue for decades, an expert has said.

"The site unearthed until today is not even 10 percent of all the complex that is still underground," Necmi Karul, a member of the Göbeklitepe Science Board, told Demirören News Agency.

Göbeklitepe, a 12,000-year-old Neolithic archaeological site in southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, may have been made by aliens, the city's mayor says.

"The statues in Göbeklitepe depict something other than humans. They seem to be coming from somewhere else. They remind me of aliens," Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül told daily Milliyet on April 25.

German Professor Klaus Schmidt, who brought the Göbeklitepe ancient settlement in the history of humanity with his works, was commemorated on the seventh anniversary of his death.

The landowner of what many have dubbed humanity's ground zero has recalled how they stumbled upon the ancient site of Göbeklitepe as they plowed their fields in the late 1980's.

German archeologist Professor Klaus Schmidt, who shed light on the history of humanity in Göbeklitepe, known as the "zero point in history" in southeastern Turkey, is commemorated on the fifth year of his demise.

The home of the late German professor Klaus Schmidt, who shed light on the history of humanity with his findings at Göbeklitepe, known as the "zero point of history," has been burgled. 

Many objects were reportedly stolen from the house in the Kadıoğlu neighborhood of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa's Eyyübiye district. 

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.

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

Leading cultural, historical and business figures came together on Jan. 21 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris for a conference on Göbeklitepe, during which participants reiterated their commitment to improving the Neolithic site.