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Houses at Göbekli Tepe: What the First Northern Dig Does and Doesn't Settle
On 13 August 2026 digging began for the first time in the northern section of Göbekli Tepe, and rectangular buildings of the site's second phase came up from just below the surface. Necmi Karul kept his wording careful: «Our first impression is that they were used as residences.» Eight days later the sentence came back from the English-language press as «proved». The cult-centre case rested on two legs, and Karul lists both: no houses, no water. The northern dig weakens the first. The second is untouched, with cisterns holding 153.12 cubic metres and the nearest springs five kilometres out. The excavating institute had already revised the «World's First Temples» framing in its own journal in 2020. I traced the chain across six hops.
