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 ...

As dams rose across southeastern Turkey, archaeologists rushed to rescue a disappearing past, and one strange museum find sent Klaus Schmidt to Potbelly Hill. There, Gobekli Tepe revealed a monumental ...