Göbekli Tepe's carved megaliths are about 11,000 years old, roughly 6,000 years older than Stonehenge, and were made before the people who built them had developed metal tools or pottery.
Sources
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub362/entry-6007.html (factsanddetails.com)
- https://www.history.com/articles/gobekli-tepe (history.com)
- https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/the-secrets-of-gobekli-tepe-10-things-we-know-so-far (sciencenewstoday.org)
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