More than 9,000 years ago, a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers built what might be described as the world’s first known temple. Located in southern Turkey, this ancient place of ritual worship ...

In Turkey, Carved Skulls Provide the First Evidence of a Neolithic "Skull Cult": Three carved skull fragments uncovered at a Neolithic dig site in Turkey feature modifications not seen before among ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An aerial view of Göbekli Tepe, an 11,000-year-old Stone Age site in what is now Turkey. In ...

Hunter-gatherers who built and worshiped at one of the oldest known ritual centers in the world carved up human skulls in a style all their own. At Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe site — where human activity ...

Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Neanderthals decorated themselves with feathers, drew cave ...

At Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, a 11,500-year-old monument was decorated with human skulls. The monumental rock pillars of Göbekli Tepe date back over 11,000 years and tower over a small hill in Turkey.

Inside a German cave, researchers discovered what they say is one of the oldest pieces of art ever found. It is the toe bone of a prehistoric deer, with lines carved into, the researchers wrote in the ...

In Lucknow, bone carving persists as a delicate art form, transforming buffalo and camel bones into intricate creations. Artisans, inspired by Mughal designs and nature, meticulously carve dagger ...