GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey — Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the promise of something far stranger than your typical vacation snap. ...

Sefer Tepe may not be as famous as Gobekli, but it’s revealing secrets just as ancient. This update covers the latest discoveries at one of Turkey’s oldest settlements.

Archaeologists are excavating an ancient Neolithic site in Turkey that is believed to represent one of the earliest found in the region, potentially even predating the famous site of Göbekli Tepe. The ...

“Over here on the right, you see a spaceship landed recently,” he says with a grin. He’s joking. Mostly. But more on that in a minute. We’re in the Urfa plain, a dry, dusty stretch about 25 miles from ...