Gobekli Tepe and the Forgotten Genesis of Civilization

Buried beneath a quiet hill in southeastern Anatolia lay the secret that would rewrite human history. For millennia, shepherds grazed their flocks across Göbekli Tepe — "e;Potbelly Hill"e; — unaware that beneath the soil slept the world's oldest temple. When archaeologists uncovered its towering T-shaped pillars in the 1990s, carved with foxes, vultures, and serpents, they revealed a monument that...