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In 1963, for the first time as an archaeological locality, Turkish and American scientists that have been identified during a survey. About the results of this study, published in 1980 by Peter Benedict. Gobekli Tepe, 15 km northeast of the province of Sanliurfa, is located on a mountainous area near the village of Örencik. The selected area, as well as other Neolithic settlements the water’s edge, valley or plain, but, on the Harran Plain north, limiting the long chain of altitude, the view and the view is in a position to judge.