Karahan Tepe
How did a community with no metal tools, agriculture, or pottery organize the labor to carve hundreds of T-shaped pillars and an entire chamber of monumental pillars directly out of the bedrock, and what did the room's carved head and snake mean to them?
c. 9500-8200 BCE (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A/B) · Şanlıurfa Province, Southeastern Anatolia, TürkiyeAdded July 2026