ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkish authorities are investigating the appearance of a mysterious monolith in southeastern Turkey.
The metal block was found by a farmer in Sanliurfa province on Friday with an ancient Turkish script that reads, “Look at the sky, see the moon.” The monolith, 3 meters high (about 10 feet), was discovered near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Gobekli Tepe, which has megalithic structures dating back to the 10th millennium BC, thousands of years before Stonehenge.
Turkish media reported on Sunday that gendarmes looked through camera images and examined vehicles that may have transported the monolith.
Other mysterious monoliths have surfaced and some have disappeared in numerous countries in recent months.