June
10
/ 2026
A new study has unveiled striking parallels between the carved symbolism of Göbekli Tepe’s famous Vulture Stone and the ritual imagery of the Trypillia culture in Eastern Europe. The research suggests that these early farming societies, despite being separated by millennia and vast distances, may have shared a profound cosmological language concerning time, death, sacred space, and the celestial movements. This intriguing connection highlights the possibility that foundational religious and astronomical concepts spread alongside the dawn of agriculture from the Near East into Europe. At the heart of the debate is Göbekli Tepe’s Pillar 43, widely known as the Vulture Stone. Located in southeastern Turkey and dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (around 9600 to 8200 BC), the site
