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Limits RegistryGöbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye contains rings of carved T-shaped limestone pillars, some over 5 meters tall, built by hunter-gatherers between about 9600 and 8200 BCE — roughly 11,600 years ago and some 6,000 years before Stonehenge. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.
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Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye contains rings of carved T-shaped limestone pillars, some over 5 meters tall, built by hunter-gatherers between about 9600 and 8200 BCE — roughly 11,600 years ago and some 6,000 years before Stonehenge. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.
The age of the oldest known site of monumental human-made megalithic structures.
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Limits Registry. LR-OLDEST-KNOWN-MEGALITHIC-MONUMENT. Oldest known monumental megalithic site. 2026.