Karahan Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The site is in the same geographical region as Göbekli Tepe and archaeologists have also uncovered T-shaped stelae there …

Jan 15, 2026 · Karahan Tepe is home to the oldest winter solstice alignment ever recorded and covers an area larger than Göbekli Tepe. But it was only in September 2023 that a new enclosure at the top …

Jul 27, 2025 · High in the Tektek Mountains of southeastern Turkey, carved into bedrock above the Euphrates plain, Karahan Tepe lay buried for over ten millennia. Today, it rises again - revealing a …

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Oct 31, 2025 · The extent of preservation is remarkable, mainly because Karahan Tepe, like Göbekli Tepe, was intentionally backfilled around 8,000 BCE. This deliberate burial preserved structures and …

Jun 16, 2023 · As many of you will already know, KarahanTepe is an archaeological site in Şanlıurfa Province in Turkey and is often dubbed the sister site of the famous Göbekli Tepe.

A photograph taken at the archaeological site of Karahan Tepe in Sanliurfa, southeastern Turkey, on October 9, 2023, shows a human head carved from a rock on the wall of a room.

Karahan Tepe is younger than the earliest levels of Göbekli Tepe, but they share: architectural style, stone pillar symbolism, and communal function. Together, they suggest a shared cultural sphere …

Jan 27, 2023 · At around 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe is the world's oldest megalithic site – and it has a lesser-known "sister site" called Karahan Tepe.

Karahan Tepe might be described as a sister site to the more widely known Pre-Pottery Neolithic sanctuary of Göbekli Tepe. Both are situated in mountainous terrain in southeast Anatolia (the …