While snooping around one of the world’s most remarkable archaeological sites, researchers peeled away layers of dusty earth to reveal a large, stony human face staring back at them. With further digging, archaeologists realized they had uncovered the first human face carved onto a T-shaped obelisk ever found at this magnificent site. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

First discovered in 1997, Karahan Tepe is a sprawling 12,000-year-old site where rows of stone pillars are carved with mysterious human figures and animal depictions, hinting at a lost culture from the dawn of history that thrived long before the pyramids or Stonehenge.

It’s located in southeastern Turkey, near the border of Syria, around 45 kilometers (2

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