24 September 2026
10,000-Year-Old Burials at Göbeklitepe May Solve a 30-Year Archaeological Mystery
For more than three decades, archaeologists at Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye have encountered a puzzling sight:…
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Neolithic Anatolia
22 September 2026
In Türkiye’s Textile Heartland, Archaeologists Uncover an 8,200-Year-Old Workshop
More than 8,000 years ago, people living in western Anatolia were spinning thread, preparing textile-making tools,…
9 February 2026
The Queer Side of Taş Tepeler No One Talks About: Sex, Ritual, and Ecstasy in the Neolithic
For decades, the monumental stone sites of Neolithic Anatolia have been explained through a familiar archaeological…
20 January 2026
5,000-Year-Old Skull from İkiztepe Reveals Early Cranial Surgery in Anatolia
A remarkable archaeological discovery in northern Türkiye is rewriting the history of prehistoric medicine. A human…
6 January 2026
Decoding the First Farmers: A 12,000-Year-Old DNA Map Emerges from Çayönü in Türkiye
On a low rise overlooking the upper reaches of the Tigris River, archaeologists are revisiting one…
2 January 2026
7,500-Year-Old Stone Seal Discovered at Tadım Höyük in Türkiye
Archaeologists working at Tadım Castle and Höyük in Elazığ, eastern Türkiye, have uncovered a stone seal…
30 November 2025
An 8,500-Year-Old Micro-Carved Bead—and a 10,000-Year-Old Skull Room—Reveal Sefertepe’s Hidden Symbolic World
An 8,500-year-old micro-carved bead and a 10,000-year-old skull room uncovered at Sefertepe reveal a remarkably complex…
29 November 2025
8,500-Year-Old Mirror Unearthed at Canhasan in Central Türkiye
An 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror has been unearthed at Canhasan in central Türkiye, revealing new insights into…
27 September 2025
Graves Older Than Pyramids: 11,000-Year-Old Burials Discovered in Türkiye’s Çayönü
Archaeologists working in Çayönü Tepesi (Çayönü Hill), one of the world’s most significant early human settlements,…
17 September 2025
5,000-Year-Old “Human-Faced” Pottery Fragment Unearthed in Gökhöyük, Konya, Türkiye
Archaeologists working in central Türkiye have unearthed a remarkable pottery fragment depicting a human face, dating…