Hidden History of Gobekli Tepe

On a limestone hill above the plains of southeastern Anatolia, people living more than eleven thousand years ago cut enormous T-shaped pillars from the bedrock, carved them with snakes, vultures, foxes, boars, scorpions, belts, hands, and headless human forms, then raised them inside enclosed stone chambers. They did this before cities, before writing, before metal, and before the settled farming ...