Ancient · 9600 BC

The 12,000-Year-Old Man Buried in Göbekli Tepe

Last September, archaeologists in southern Turkey pulled a twelve-thousand-year-old man out of a wall. The statue was missing its feet. He'd been laid horizontal, built into the stone of the world's oldest temple — by the people who built it.

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