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Göbekli Tepe: The 11,000-Year-Old Temple That Rewrote History

November 8, 2026November 6, 2026 by Tommy Hayes
Stone pillars of the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in southeastern Turkey

About 4 min readBuilt by hunter-gatherers around 9600 BCE — thousands of years before Stonehenge or the pyramids — Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known monumental temple, and it challenges everything we thought we knew about how civilisation began.

Categories Ancient Enigmas Tags ancient temples, archaeology, Göbekli Tepe, Neolithic, Turkey, Unsolved Leave a comment

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