In 1994 a German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt was investigating a site in southeastern Turkey which had been known to be a source of ancient stone tools.

What he found was far greater. His discovery totally upended the world of archaeology and has changed

everything we thought we knew about early human civilization. Learn more about

Gobekly Tempe and how it changed our views of early human civilization on this episode of

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When Klaus Schmidt began his excavation of Go Beckley Tempe in 1994, he had no idea what he was going to find.

And by the way, the name Gobecly Tempe in Turkish means Potbelly Hill.

The spot was a hill that had been previously noted in an archaeological

survey conducted by the universities of Istanbul in Chicago in 1963. They noted the

presence of stone tools as well as some stone sticking out of the ground which they thought were

gravestones.

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