Richly decorated with carvings of animals ... It would predate all other known examples by thousands of years. “It appears the inhabitants of Göbekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky ...

MUSI At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals ... design. All are made from ...

Pillar 43 from Göbekli Tepe depicting a vulture with its wings spread. Vultures were not only the most important birds in the iconography of Early Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups, they were also ...

Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and altered after death, and possibly ...

The site of Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, dates back about 11,000 ... The pillars contain carvings of animals such as foxes, boars, gazelles, snakes and vultures. The carvings also include depictions ...

Additionally, a life-sized statue of a boar made of limestone was found in Göbekli Tepe. This sculpture is the first painted example of a statue of this size of an animal found from the Neolithic ...

A member of Melbourne’s Turkish community, İsmail Metin, wrote a book about the 12,000-year-old religious centre Göbekli Tepe, located in Turkey. The site is believed to be the first building ...