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Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], [2] ' Potbelly Hill '; [3] Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xerabreşkê, 'Wish Hill' [4]) is a Neolithic archaeological site in Turkey, on the southern border of Southeastern Anatolia. The settlement was inhabited from around 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, [5] during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
In 1995, he became the leader of the excavations at Gürcütepe and Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey. Schmidt purchased a house in nearby Urfa , which became his base of operations. [ 1 ] His team of archaeologists typically excavated the site of Göbekli Tepe for two months in the spring and two months in the fall.
Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the final location of Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. Soil samples from atop the highest peaks in Turkey reveal human activity and marine ...
The museum opened in 2015, and replaced the former museum of Şanlıurfa on Çamlık street. With a closed area of 34,000 square metres (370,000 sq ft), it is one of the biggest museums of in Turkey. [2] The museum consists of two major buildings. To the north is the archaeology museum and to the south is the mosaic museum.
Articles relating to Göbekli Tepe and its depictions. It is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Head of statue, Jericho, from c. 9000 years ago.Displayed at the Rockefeller Archeological Museum in Jerusalem.. Cultural tendencies of this period differ from that of the earlier Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), in that people living during this phase began to depend more heavily upon domesticated animals to supplement their earlier mixed agrarian and hunter-gatherer diet.
Within the province, approximately 12 km (7 mi) northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa, is the pre-historic site of Göbekli Tepe, where continuing excavations have unearthed 12,000-year-old sanctuaries dating from the early Neolithic period, considered to be the oldest temples in the world, predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years.
This city is located at the archeological site Kazane Tepe adjacent to modern Urfa. [ 24 ] A much later artifact is a black stone pedestal with a double bull relief, found at a hill called Külaflı Tepe in the former village of Cavşak in the 1950s when the village was being evacuated to build a base for the Urfa Brigade.