Who Built Gobekli Tepe and Why Did They Bury It?

Gobekli Tepe was built 12,000 years ago at least 1,000 years before the first evidence of agriculture anywhere in the world. It required coordinating hundreds of workers, quarrying 20-ton limestone pillars, and sustaining organized construction over generations. The people who built it were hunter gatherers. Then they deliberately buried the entire site. This is one of archaeology’s most important…