Twelve thousand years before the pyramids, hunter-gatherers raised towering carved pillars on a hilltop in southeastern Turkey, building a sacred world that predated everything we thought we knew ...

Archaeologists in Mardin have uncovered a ceremonial structure that may force us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about the origins of monumental architecture. This site spans a critical ...

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 ...