Göbekli Tepe

The oldest known monumental sanctuary — carved pillars raised by hunter-gatherers.

9,500 BCE · 37.22, 38.92 · status: documented

The account

Predating agriculture, pottery and the wheel, its T-shaped pillars carved with animals overturned assumptions that temples came after farming.

Connections in the atlas

• The Göbekli Tepe 'comet pillar'
• Klaus Schmidt

Sources

1. Wikipedia