Flagship sites — excavated in depth
Göbekli Tepe
The oldest monument on Earth — rings of carved T-pillars, then deliberately buried.
Enter →Karahan Tepe
Chambers carved down into living rock, where a human head watches the room.
Enter →Sayburç
The oldest known scene of people — a man between two leopards, and a bull.
Enter →Sefertepe
Carved human faces and a reported room of skulls in the hills east of Urfa.
Enter →The wider network — developing & smaller sites
Çakmaktepe
Some of the earliest ground here — grinding stones and burnt animal-head deposits.
Enter →Harbetsuvan
A smaller hilltop with T-pillars and human imagery — the same idea, more intimate.
Enter →Ayanlar Höyük
A developing excavation widening the map of the Taş Tepeler world to the west.
Enter →Gürcütepe
Later settlement mounds near Şanlıurfa — daily life as the world shifted to villages.
Enter →Söğüt Tarlası
A Taş Tepeler site under study, part of the wider Neolithic landscape.
Enter →Mendik
One of the smaller sites that fill in the dense Taş Tepeler network.
Enter →Yoğunburç
A site within the Taş Tepeler network in the Şanlıurfa region.
Enter →Yeni Mahalle
In central Şanlıurfa — near where Urfa Man, the oldest human statue, was found.
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