Ground-penetrating radar and geomagnetic surveys at Göbekli Tepe mapped at least 16 additional buried megalith rings across 22 acres, while the excavated area covers only about one acre, less than 5 percent of the site.
Sources
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.5600 (arxiv.org)
- https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2018/07/18/looking-beneath-the-surface-geophysical-surveys-at-gobekli-tepe/ (dainst.blog)
- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Plan-of-excavations-and-geophysical-surveys-at-Goebekli-Tepe-graphics-T-Goetzelt-c-DAI_fig3_235799794 (researchgate.net)
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