'This place is so extraordinary
that it is hard for the
human mind to understand.'
Steve Mithen
'First came the temple,
then the city.'
Klaus Schmidt
'Göbeklitepe is a cathedral on a hill.'
Klaus Schmidt
'Göbekli Tepe was a temple in
the Garden of Eden
where Adam and Eve lived.'
Klaus Schmidt
'Göbekli Tepe is the greatest
archaeological discovery in history.'
David Lewis Williams
'Before civilisation and above all,
there was Göbekli Tepe.'
Ian Hodder

TIMELINE

Taş Tepeler

c. 8,000 to 10,800 BC

The literal bedrock of history, Taş Tepeler is the newly discovered neolithic sites belonging to Southeast Anatolia, and the fertile crescent.

Çatalhöyük

c. 7500  to 6400 BC

Ҫatalhöyük is one of the largest Neolithic, egalitarian settlements ever discovered. Built more than 9000 years ago in modern Konya Plain, central Turkey,

Ggantija

c. 3.800 BC

Ġgantija is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic era (c. 3600–2500 BC), on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta.

Stonehenge

c. 3100 BC

Stonehenge is a Neolithic / Bronze Age monument located on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, southern England. 

Pyramids of Giza

c. 2600 BC

The three Pyramids of Giza were built during the Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, between 2600 and 2500 BC.