Founders’ Free Period — every narrated guide is free in the app until 31 August
Create your free account before 31 August and the complete audio library — every site, every language — stays yours forever. No catch, no purchase.
Audio guides across the Taş Tepeler — Göbeklitepe’s carved enclosures, the pillars sunk into bedrock at Karahan Tepe, the Urfa Man who has been staring back for eleven thousand years, the sacred carp at Balıklıgöl. Written for the sites themselves, and they play whether or not there is a bar of signal out in the hills.
The narration plays in the free app and nowhere else. Every script is free to read here.
Not a museum handset and not a scraped encyclopedia entry. 16 scripts written for Şanlıurfa, and built to work where there is no signal.
Every guide is an original script, researched site by site and written for the ear — never lifted off a webpage. Where you are standing, what to look for, and the one story worth carrying away with you.
These are scripts, not articles. One image at a time, paced for walking, so you can keep your eyes on the path and the ground under your boots and still take every word in.
Walk into range of a site and the guide begins on its own. No hunting through a menu with the sun on the screen, a pack on your back and gloves on your hands.
Download once on wifi and the whole library plays in flight mode — down in a gorge, out on a ridge, at the far end of the trail where nothing has a single bar of reception.
Three steps, and the last one is just walking.
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Open Downloads, tap Audio Guides, choose your language. The whole library lands on the phone while you still have wifi.
Reach a site and the guide starts by itself — or press play whenever you like. The full script is on screen too, if you would rather read.
Every site on Şanlıurfa that has a guide. Open any one to read the complete script — free, no account, in every language it was written in. Each carries a code that opens that guide in the app, which is the only place the audio plays.
The first words you hear when you reach Göbeklitepe.
You are standing on a raised wooden walkway, under a great sweeping canopy, on a hill above the Harran plain. Below you, rings of carved stone are emerging from the earth, and they are older than almost anything human hands have ever made. In this first chapter you will meet the hill itself, the hunters who raised these stones six thousand years before Stonehenge, and the man who walked up this slope in 1994 and…Göbekli Tepe — Part 1 · read the whole guide →
The app is free, and until 31 August 2026 every one of the 16 narrated guides is free inside it. Open a free account before 1 September and the complete library stays yours permanently. Separately and always: the full written script of every guide is published free on this website, in every language it exists in.
Yes, completely. Download them over wifi before you set off and they play in flight mode — the audio, the script and the maps. That is the point: the places these guides describe are mostly where the signal is not.
English, with its own narrator throughout the library.
No. The app starts a guide automatically when you walk into range, which is how most people use them, but you can play any guide any time — on the plane, over breakfast, or at home while you plan.
Yes. Every script on this page is published in full and free to read, with no account and no app. The narration itself lives only in the app.
We do. Each guide is researched for its own site and written to a fixed shape — where you are standing, what to look for, the one human story worth carrying away — then checked against the archaeology and the local record. That is 16 original scripts for Şanlıurfa alone.
By roughly six thousand years. The guide to the main site walks you through what that actually means as you stand on the walkway looking down at enclosure D — and why the order in which the temple and the farming village appeared upended what archaeologists thought they knew.
Every guide on this page is narrated in the free Göbeklitepe and the Taş Tepeler app, and only there. This website is where you read and plan; the app is what you walk with.
