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Göbeklitepe located in Turkey's Şanlıurfa to boost tourism in region

As 2019 is declared as "the Year of Göbeklitepe" in honor of the 12,000-year-old temple in southeastern Turkey, tourism to the world's oldest archeological site is expected to boost the region. Located in Turkey's southeastern Şanlıurfa province, Göbeklitepe was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in June 2018.

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Göbeklitepe has been on UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List since 2011. It was discovered in 1963 when researchers from Istanbul and Chicago universities were working at the site. Since then, the excavations have never stopped.