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Karahan Tepe

A stone structure with columns and a carved face stands in the foreground, surrounded by rocky terrain under a partly cloudy sky, representing the Karahan Tepe archaeological site.

Pre-Pottery Neolithic site forty kilometres east of Göbekli Tepe, under sustained excavation since 2019 by a Turkish team led by Necmi Karul. Smaller than its famous neighbour but of comparable age, it includes a chamber cut into bedrock with eleven phallic pillars and a carved human head emerging from the wall. Crucially, it has domestic structures alongside the monumental ones — evidence the builders lived on site.

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