Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in southern Turkey, approximately 12 km (7 mi) northeast of the city of Sanliurfa. It is an excavation site dated to the 10th millennium BCE, consisting of a series of circular stone walls with associated carved stone pillars. The site was first noted in 1963 by Professor Halet Çambel of Istanbul University. It was not until 1994 that excavation work began, under the direction of Professor Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute.
The site has been under excavation since 1994, and has been extensively studied since 1995. It is currently believed that Göbekli Tepe was a religious site, that may have been the world's first temple. Schmidt believes that the site was a pilgrimage center, where people from all over the region came to worship. The site was used by a variety of different cultures, including the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), the Pottery Neolithic (PN
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