Karahan Tepe | The Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the 21st Century | Andrew Collins

Karahan Tepe is unquestionably the greatest archaeological discovery of the twenty-first century. A sister site of Gobekli Tepe, it is located around 30 miles away in the Tektek Mountains of southeast Turkey. Since 2019 archaeological teams under the command of Dr Necmi Karul of Istanbul University have uncovered huge stone enclosures forming part of a massive ceremonial complex covering an area of around 10 hectares. The 11,000-year-old monumental architecture present at Karahan Tepe displays precision geometry, astronomical alignments, immense sophistication in design as well as a mindset of its inhabitants wherein it is clear that the objectives of constructing these special buildings was to connect with a cosmic source recognised by the symbol of the snake. Most important of all about the discoveries being made right now at Karahan Tepe is that it tells us Gobekli Tepe was not some one off anomaly but was part of an extremely sophisticated society that can