Göbeklitepe

Göbeklitepe, thousands of years old Neolithic archaeological site in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, may lure as many as 5 million foreign tourists in the next five years, Culture and Tourism Minister Nuri Ersoy has said.

Istanbul residents will be able to visit Göbeklitepe, one of the first settlements in the world, thanks to a digital model twin of the ancient site made by an Istanbul Municipality subsidiary.

Göbeklitepe's digital model twin was obtained by calculating 1,800 photographs taken with an 80 percent overlap rate, with photogrammetry software that produces millimetric precision data.

Around 200,000 people visited Turkey's ancient site of Göbeklitepe, known as the world's oldest temple, in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to officials.

For Göbeklitepe, the world's oldest temple located in modern day Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, a global pandemic is nothing novel, as it has survived throughout history for 12,000 years.

Göbeklitepe, the site of the world?s oldest temple, may be the home of the first pictograph, according to a scene etched into an obelisk A scene on an obelisk found during excavations in Göbeklitepe, a 12,000-year-old site in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa, could be humanity?s first pictograph, according to researchers.