Articles for tag: ancient civilizations, Ancient Engineering, ancient megastructures, Prehistoric Architecture

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Gobekli Tepe: Why Did Hunter-Gatherers Build This 11,000-Year-Old Temple?

Suhail Ahmed

  On a limestone ridge above modern Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey, a ring of T-shaped pillars has been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the deep past. Göbekli Tepe is older than pottery, older than cities, and likely older than agriculture as we understand it. Yet its towering stones and carved menagerie shout ...