50+ buildings uncovered
More than fifty Neolithic structures come to light — homes and communal halls alike marked by the region's signature T-shaped pillars.
Read more →A Neolithic village in the Stone Hills
The place where belief first moved in next door
Eleven thousand years ago, in the hills near Şanlıurfa, a community carved the earliest known scene in human history — and lived their daily life right beside it. Not a remote temple on a hilltop like Göbekli Tepe, but ritual woven into homes, hearths and workshops. The first place we can watch people tell a story, and keep their dead close.
Here, ritual and daily life share the same floor — and every carving, burial, pillar and hearth has a story still being read.