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The Village Beneath Karahan Tepe
More than 30 Neolithic homes — hearths, grinding stones, and standing stones inside them — reframe the sanctuary as one of the world's first villages.
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Göbekli Tepe Wasn't Alone. Ayanlar Höyük Proves It
A new excavation places Ayanlar Höyük firmly within the same Neolithic world — part of a growing pattern of interconnected settlements across southeastern Turkey.
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Taş Tepeler Exhibition in Berlin
"Building Community: Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and Life 12,000 Years Ago" opens in Berlin, reframing the region's monument-builders with original artifacts from Türkiye.
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Sefer Tepe's Stone Faces
A platform of carved human faces and a double-faced bead at Sefer Tepe widen the symbolic world shared across Karahan Tepe and the Stone Hills.
Read More →The World's Oldest Staircase?
A small stone staircase at Karahan Tepe is quietly reshaping how we think about the earliest architecture on Earth — architecture that begins not with shelter, but with intention.
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The Sayburç Human Statue
A figure of the dead with a deliberately stitched mouth gives Sayburç a clearer place in the region's symbolic network — beyond the hilltop sanctuaries.
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A Second Human Figure & Rectangular Enclosure
A second statue emerges in the same pose as the first, with new parallels to Sayburç — the pattern behind these carvings is harder to dismiss.
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A Human Face Carved on a T-Pillar
For the first time, archaeologists uncover a T-shaped pillar bearing a human face — never seen before at the site. Read it in full on our Carved Heads page.
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The "Ribbed Man" — Karahan Tepe's Haunting Statue
A 2.3 m statue found seated in a chamber, ribs exposed. Who was he, and what does he represent? Explore it on our Human Figures page.
Read More →We track every new find from Karahan Tepe and the Taş Tepeler region and report it straight — evidence first, interpretation flagged as interpretation. Every story here opens a full article in the archive.
