At Gobekli Tepe, 15 km northeast of the city of Sanliurfa, stand four megalithic limestone pillars, 7 m tall and weighing perhaps 50 tons each.
One reason for its bad press, no doubt, is the way the megalithic headquarters of European Union institutions have been artlessly plopped into the European Quarter east of the city .
The charcoal sample that was thus dated came from an excavated pit at Stonehenge, the great "megalithic cromlech" on .
House Calls: Rain barrel savings Rainwater has been collected as far back as 850 B.C. in simple clay pots, complex underground cisterns and great megalithic structures.
March 8, 2014 - Leader-Telegram