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Buried Turkish Treasure

  • August 27, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe (Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh) is the site of a temple that’s about 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. It was mistaken for a medieval cemetery until the 1990s, when excavations revealed several rings of massive carved pillars and a trove of Neolithic tools and more.

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