Older than Stonehenge, older than all sacred texts is humanity’s oldest standing worship structure, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which predates all other religious sites on earth. An American and a Turkish university discovered it in the 1960s, the handiwork of creators who arranged hundreds of 6-meter stone pillars in 20 circles 10,000 years old. German archaeologist Claud Schmidt, who excavated the site over the last two decades and died last year, presented evidence that the worshipful would make pilgrimages from as far as 160 kilometers away.
