Buried beneath a quiet hill in southeastern Turkey lay a sanctuary built thousands of years before farming, pottery, or cities. This chapter follows the chance discoveries and overlooked clues that ...

Now seen as early evidence of prehistoric worship, the hilltop site was previously shunned by researchers as nothing more than a medieval cemetery. Berthold Steinhilber Six miles from Urfa, an ancient ...

From Urfa’s castle, Gobekli Tepe still dominates the horizon, a harsh, waterless hill that somehow became a magnet for monument building. With no signs of daily life, wild animal feasts, and carvings ...