Şanlıurfa · Southeastern Türkiye
Seven thousand years older — raised before farming, before writing, before history itself.
What it is
Eleven thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers raised rings of carved stone in the hills of Şanlıurfa — pillars taller than the people who made them, covered with animals and the dead.
Then they buried it all. No one knows why.
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The network · 12+ sites
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Where it all began — with a guide who knows every stone.
Both great sites in a single day across the plateau.
The lesser-seen sites, on a route we shape around you.