Built 11,600 years ago, Göbekli Tepe rewrote human history—but its builders were never identified, until now. The colossal stone circles predate farming, writing, and the wheel, yet someone carved precise astronomical alignments.
Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site in southeastern Turkey, near the city of Şanlıurfa. It consists of massive carved stone pillars arranged in circular enclosures on a hilltop. Radiocarbon dating places its construction at around 9600 BCE, making it roughly 11,600 years old. That predates Stonehenge by about 6,000 years and the Great Pyramid of Giza by about 7,000 years. It also predates the d…