A temple that floats in the air. A pillar that refuses to touch the ground. Stones that balance in ways science can't explain ...

the animals on the great pillars seeming to move in flickering torchlight. Surely there were feasts; Schmidt has uncovered stone basins that could have been used for beer. The temple was a ...

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 ...

The imagery found at Göbekli Tepe, adorning T-pillars and some small finds (stone vessels, shaft-straighteners, etc.), is also found at contemporaneous sites in the Upper Mesopotamian region, thus ...

A stone pillar inscribed with "The Tomb of Zhao Lie ... Surrounded by a vermilion wall, the temple occupies 56 mu of land. Just inside the temple is a quiet and secluded courtyard planted with ...