5,000 Years OLDER than Gobekli Tepe: 16,500-Year-Old Cave Settlement Discovered in Turkey

Earlier this week I was send a link to a Turkish news site, from a Twitter user called Diego, and I’m really glad he did because it was a news story from the end of December 2021 about a 16,500 year old site in Turkey. The significance is obviously the age of the site, being around 5,000 years older than the earliest phase of Gobekli Tepe, also located within Turkey, but the site is located more than 800 kilometres away from the famous megalithic site, close to the Bosporus strait. The story hasn’t really permeated the western, English speaking media so I’m happy to present what I can find here on the Ancient Architects channel.