Gobekli Tepe (Potbelly Hill) in Southern Turkey, near the border of Syria. This archaeological site may be the oldest known temple. It was built in the 10th Millennium BCE (about 6000 years before Stonehenge) and abandoned in the 8th Millenium. Discovered in the 1960s, this complex has led scholars to reconsider the previously held idea that civilization gave rise to religion. Now it is thought that religion may have given rise to civilization.
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