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| Gobekli Tepe
http://www.world-archaeology.com/features/turkey-gobekli-tepe/
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The semi-deserts of southeastern Turkey seem very uninviting.
Yet archaeologists flock there like the sheep that graze the valleys between
the dusty plateaus, to feast their eyes on something that has changed their
view of humanity’s advancement. A gently rounded hill rises above the
surrounding landscape. What lies within this hill is what has attracted all the
attention. A shepherd was the first to discover the top of a pillar jutting up
out of the dirt and introduced the site to archaeological curiosity. But it was
a German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt in 1994 who ‘unveiled’ the
incredible importance of this hill known as Gobekli Tepe. [1]
