Karahan Tepe's Remarkable Underworld Encounters Captivate Historians
After thousands of years underground, statues unearthed at Karahan Tepe unveil a world of ritual mysteries, subterranean chambers and enigmatic carvings.
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After thousands of years underground, statues unearthed at Karahan Tepe unveil a world of ritual mysteries, subterranean chambers and enigmatic carvings.
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Discarding Site V52/1 Schmidt knew that as early as 1963 a joint team from the universities of Istanbul and Chicago had visited the site and identified a number of knolls, or rises, that cover an area of some three and a half acres (1.44 hectares)—a figure extended to 22 acres (nine hectares) following a geomagnetic survey of the site in 2003. The 1963 expedition noted that immediately west of Göbekli Tepe’s rounded summit prehistoric stone tools lay strewn across a wide area. They belonged to an age when the inhabitants of southeast Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) were making the transiti...