Sacred site · c. 9500 BCE

Göbekli Tepe raised

Şanlıurfa, southeastern Türkiye

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Illustration · AI-generated: artistic, not documentary.

Hunter-gatherers raised rings of huge T-shaped pillars carved with foxes, snakes, boars and vultures, before farming or pottery. It changed how archaeologists think about religion and the first villages.

People: Klaus Schmidt (excavator, from 1995)

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