18 July 2026
What Lies Beneath Karahantepe? A 12,000-Year-Old Stone-Sealed Chamber Will Soon Be Opened
Archaeologists will open a stone-sealed chamber at Karahantepe in southeastern Türkiye during the 2026 excavation season,…
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic
24 May 2026
9,000-Year-Old Canhasan May Hold a Missing Clue to the Origins of Çatalhöyük’s Symbolic World
For more than half a century, Canhasan sat on the edge of one of archaeology’s biggest…
27 January 2026
The Taş Tepeler Horizon Expands: Göbeklitepe-Style T-Pillars Discovered in Adıyaman
Göbeklitepe-style T-shaped pillars discovered in Adıyaman reveal the wider Taş Tepeler culture and reshape the Neolithic…
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…
11 December 2025
Gürcütepe’s 9,000-Year-Old Figurines Offer Rare Clues to Life After Taş Tepeler’s Monumental Age
Just southeast of Şanlıurfa, on the northwestern edge of the vast Harran Plain, a small but…
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…
27 September 2025
11,000-Year-Old Settlement Unearthed: Saudi Arabia Reveals Oldest Human Settlement in Arabian Peninsula
The Saudi Heritage Commission has announced, in partnership with Japanese scholars from Kanazawa University, the discovery…
26 August 2025
One of the World’s Oldest Streets Unearthed at Canhasan 3 in Türkiye, Dating Back 9,750 Years
Nearly 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of cities, a community in central Anatolia was…