Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite

These photos seem fine to me and were likely provided by the team, I was just explaining the general problem.

However, I've been on ancient digs where we declined to release pictures of the interesting bits due to ethical concerns, generally photos of graves or remains. It's also common if the photo would leak the location of a sensitive site, or violate someone's privacy. You're free to disagree with those standards, but they're widely-held enough that violating them will prevent publication and earn you a bad reputation.

The article says “He also emphasized that the biggest threats to historical sites were from treasure hunters and urbanization.”

The treasure hunter bit is going to be difficult to avoid if there are many photos.

> learned about Göbekli Tepe and it blew my mind

It's also funny if you speak Turkish because it literally means "a hill with a belly".

Thanks for pointing this out, I was unclear. The era we call the "Neolithic" does indeed start a bit earlier, and the earliest layers of the site are within the PPNA. Sometimes we use the term neolithic to refer to certain sets of economic and cultural modes, the so-called "Neolithic Package". The general thinking has been that the earliest layers and probably the site as a whole were not made by one of these groups.

There's been a long-running argument that all of the elements of a really old, really bad concept called "civilization" require this so-called "neolithic package" to be invented. All the other known examples post-dated the earliest of these societies, and the (dumb) explanation was just that the ideas had diffused from more "sophisticated" societies. Gobekli Tepe was clear evidence against that.

It's a very clever pro-Turkish post expertly crafted to expose all the latent anti-Turkish hatred on HN.

Or perhaps, I forgot to put an '/s' at the end of my original comment, you tell me xD