Is Göbekli Tepe older than pyramids?
Is Göbekli Tepe older than pyramids? At around 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey has been billed as the world's oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt's great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel.
Where are the oldest ruins in Europe?
Göbekli Tepe, Turkey The oldest ruins on our list are the oldest in the world, with an estimated age of 10 to 12 thousand years old. That puts Göbekli Tepe almost twice as old as the ruins on Malta and to date very little is known about who built it and what it was used for.