Göbekli Tepe Site Guides
Original guides to every part of the site — from the snake pillars of Enclosure A to the Vulture Stone in Enclosure D. Free, and readable offline in the app as you walk the boardwalk.
Map of the guides
Tap any pin to open its guide.
Threads across the guide
Read several guides and they start working as a single story — the carvings, the builders, and the meaning of the place.
A menagerie in stone
Foxes, snakes, vultures, boar and scorpions recur across the enclosures — the fox of Enclosure B, the snakes of Enclosure A, the vultures of Pillar 43. The guides trace what these animals may have meant.
The figures in the circle
The twin 5.5 m central pillars of Enclosure D carry arms, hands and belts — stylised beings, not plain stones. The guides follow the T-pillars from ring to ring.
Built before farming
Hunter-gatherers raised these rings ~9500–8000 BCE, before pottery, metal or the plough. The guides set Göbekli Tepe against the story of how it was found.
Use them at the site with the mobile app
The same guides, but the app downloads them for offline use, shows you which one belongs to the enclosure you have reached, and remembers where you stopped. The web pages are perfect for planning at home. The app is for the boardwalk.
Plan a visit
Read how to get to Göbekli Tepe, opening times, tickets, and what to see at each enclosure.
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