Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The discovery of sacrificed teens from 4,800 years ago may complicate our understanding of ancient societal hierarchies. ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

Easter is an important day for those of the Christian faith. It can fall on a different date from year to year, depending on the moon cycle.

Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

This region of Turkey was once part of ancient Mesopotamia. Several stone tombs were discovered a few years back, and the ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...