Karahan Tepe
Göbekli Tepe’s neighbour and contemporary, with a chamber of pillars cut out of the bedrock and a carved human head looking out from the wall.
Plan your visit
For a first visit at an easy pace.
Opening hours and prices change: see muze.gov.tr (opens in a new tab).
Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.
Its place in history
Read the chapter before you go.
From here
Şanlıurfa
46 km. Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and the beehive houses of Harran.
Harran
About 35 km as the crow flies. An ancient city on the plain near the Syrian border, with conical beehive houses, the ruins of one of the oldest mosques in Anatolia and a tradition linking it to Abraham.
Where it began
5 days, 9 places, Gaziantep to Mardin.
Also nearby
- 35 kmHarran
City / beehive houses, Bronze Age–Islamic
- 37 kmGöbekli Tepe
Neolithic sanctuary, Pre-Pottery Neolithic (c. 9600–8000 BC)
- museumHaleplibahçe Mosaic Museum
Amazon queens mosaic
- museumŞanlıurfa Archaeology Museum
Urfa Man, Neolithic finds
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