
Karahan Tepe Research & Archive Project
What Is Karahan Tepe? A Beginner’s Guide to the Oldest Temple on Earth
Buried for over 11,000+ years, Karahan Tepe is one of the oldest sacred sites ever found! Older than the pyramids, older than cities, other than written language and the wheel. This stone temple rewrites the origins of civilization. But who built it… and why?