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Bronze Age Turkish Site Shows Two Earthquakes, Two Responses: People Rebuilt After the First and Left After the Second
Archaeology
Bronze Age Turkish Site Shows Two Earthquakes, Two Responses: People Rebuilt After the First and Left After the Second
A new study in Antiquity finds that two third-millennium BC earthquakes struck Panaztepe in western Turkiye.…
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New Traces of Dionysus Worship Turn Up at Kurul Castle, a 2,300-Year-Old Fortress in Northern Türkiye
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New Traces of Dionysus Worship Turn Up at Kurul Castle, a 2,300-Year-Old Fortress in Northern Türkiye
The 2026 season at Kurul Castle near Ordu has uncovered more areas linked to the worship…
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A 1,800-Year-Old Stone Oracle at Kibyra Lists 56 Fortunes Decided by Five Knucklebones
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A 1,800-Year-Old Stone Oracle at Kibyra Lists 56 Fortunes Decided by Five Knucklebones
Researchers published a limestone monument from Kibyra in Türkiye that carries 56 Greek oracles, each matched…
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2,100-Year-Old Shipwreck Reveals Cicero-Era Tableware
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2,100-Year-Old Shipwreck Reveals Cicero-Era Tableware
Thousands of ceramics in 122 forms from a 2,100-year-old shipwreck off Türkiye link to the pottery…
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Is Noah’s Ark Buried in Turkey? Scientists Are Skeptical
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Is Noah’s Ark Buried in Turkey? Scientists Are Skeptical
Drilling at Turkey's Durupınar formation hit an unexplained layer underground, but the "100% confirmed" Noah's Ark…
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First Burials Found at Göbeklitepe Solve Old Mystery
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First Burials Found at Göbeklitepe Solve Old Mystery
New burials at Göbeklitepe may explain 928 scattered bone fragments, though five skulls show separate, deliberate…
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Possible Wrestler’s Grave Found in Aspendos, Turkey
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Possible Wrestler’s Grave Found in Aspendos, Turkey
A 2,400-year-old grave in Turkey held coins depicting wrestlers, though experts say that alone can't confirm…
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Are Göbekli Tepe’s ‘Handbag’ Carvings Actually Building Plans?
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Are Göbekli Tepe’s ‘Handbag’ Carvings Actually Building Plans?
For years, three rectangular shapes on Gobekli Tepe's Vulture Stone have been called "handbags." A new…
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9,000-Year-Old Mining Workshop Found at Çayönü Tepesi
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9,000-Year-Old Mining Workshop Found at Çayönü Tepesi
Archaeologists at Cayonu Tepesi in southeastern Turkiye have uncovered a roughly 5-square-meter mining workshop dating to…
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An 11,000-Year-Old Statue Shows a Man Riding a Leopard
Archaeology
An 11,000-Year-Old Statue Shows a Man Riding a Leopard
Archaeologists at Karahantepe in southeastern Turkiye have uncovered a 70-centimeter, 11,000-year-old statue showing a human seated…
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Is This Underwater Church the Site of the Council of Nicaea?
Archaeology
Is This Underwater Church the Site of the Council of Nicaea?
Archaeologists excavating beneath Lake Iznik in Turkey have found a smaller, older church hidden below a…
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A Martyr’s Church Emerges From Şanlıurfa Castle’s Ruins
Archaeology
A Martyr’s Church Emerges From Şanlıurfa Castle’s Ruins
Archaeologists at Şanlıurfa Castle in southeastern Türkiye have fully uncovered a 5th-century inscribed floor mosaic, along…
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How a Sanctuary to Apollo, Lord of Mice, Became a Christian Farm
Archaeology
How a Sanctuary to Apollo, Lord of Mice, Became a Christian Farm
Archaeologists at Turkiye's Apollon Smintheus Sanctuary have uncovered a 1,500-year-old mortar and storage jars showing that…
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A 1,500-Year-Old Tax Fraud Scandal Uncovered in Ancient Türkiye
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A 1,500-Year-Old Tax Fraud Scandal Uncovered in Ancient Türkiye
Newly deciphered inscription fragments from western Türkiye reveal a 15-year Roman tax fraud scheme so severe…
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1,800-Year-Old Statue of Asklepios Unearthed at Aspendos
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1,800-Year-Old Statue of Asklepios Unearthed at Aspendos
Archaeologists at Aspendos in southern Türkiye have uncovered a 2.20-metre marble statue of Asklepios, the god…
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The Face-Down Statue of Sardis That Survived 2,500 Years
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The Face-Down Statue of Sardis That Survived 2,500 Years
A 2.2-metre marble statue of a young man has been unearthed at ancient Sardis in Turkey…
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How 3D Printing Gave Ancient Pottery a Built-In Health Monitor
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How 3D Printing Gave Ancient Pottery a Built-In Health Monitor
A team at Koc University has developed a method combining photogrammetry, 3D printing, and embedded sensors…
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A 3,300-Year-Old Iron Dagger From the World Before Iron
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A 3,300-Year-Old Iron Dagger From the World Before Iron
A Hittite iron dagger at Turkey's Amasra Museum is 42.5 centimetres long, single-piece iron, and survives…
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
At Gokhoyuk in central Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old ceramic jar decorated with a human face,…
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
Archaeologists at Turkmen Karahoyuk in central Turkey uncovered a 3,500-year-old Hieroglyphic Luwian seal bearing an official's…
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Peace in Unexpected Places: A Byzantine Burial at Ephesus
Archaeology
Peace in Unexpected Places: A Byzantine Burial at Ephesus
Two premature infants, possibly twins, were buried with care inside an abandoned Roman latrine at Ephesus…
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The Roman Main Street That Made Aspendos a Real City
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The Roman Main Street That Made Aspendos a Real City
Excavations at Aspendos on Turkey's Mediterranean coast have exposed 300 metres of a Roman main street…
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Was Troy Real? The Archaeology Behind Homer’s Odyssey
Archaeology
Was Troy Real? The Archaeology Behind Homer’s Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just broke box office records. But was the world Homer described actually…
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The Roman Pool at Tralleis That 5,000 People Used in a Day
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The Roman Pool at Tralleis That 5,000 People Used in a Day
Archaeologists have fully uncovered a 2,000-year-old cold-water swimming pool at Tralleis in western Turkey, 37 metres…
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When Clay Met Fire: 11,400-Year-Old Pottery Attempts at Çemka Höyük
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When Clay Met Fire: 11,400-Year-Old Pottery Attempts at Çemka Höyük
At Çemka Höyük in Turkey, archaeologists discovered 46 clay fragments from 9,350 BC showing early experiments…
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Sidetic: Anatolia’s Lost Language Moves Closer to Decipherment
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Sidetic: Anatolia’s Lost Language Moves Closer to Decipherment
New excavations at ancient Side in southern Türkiye have expanded the known Sidetic alphabet from 26…
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Snowmelt Reveals Ancient Walled Sanctuary on Mount Lifos in Türkiye
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Snowmelt Reveals Ancient Walled Sanctuary on Mount Lifos in Türkiye
Each spring, when the snow retreats from the summit of Mount Lifos in central Türkiye, it…
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First Medieval Crossbow Nut Found in Anatolia
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First Medieval Crossbow Nut Found in Anatolia
A fragment of bone from Turkey's Kubadabad Palace has been identified as the first medieval crossbow…
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Roman Tomb of an Aristocratic Woman Found at Olympos
Archaeology
Roman Tomb of an Aristocratic Woman Found at Olympos
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a third monumental tomb at ancient Olympos containing a marble sarcophagus…
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Kybele Stele Hints at Lost Hellenistic Sanctuary
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Kybele Stele Hints at Lost Hellenistic Sanctuary
A broken Kybele stele found near an ancient road in İzmir's Kiraz district, alongside a Hellenistic…
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Before Farming, Before Cities: The Stone Mounds That Rewrote Human History
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Before Farming, Before Cities: The Stone Mounds That Rewrote Human History
Hunter-gatherers with no agriculture and no pottery built the world's most sophisticated prehistoric monuments in southeastern…
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A Goddess in the Rubble: Uncovering the Two Meter Statue of Athena in Ancient Laodicea
Archaeology
A Goddess in the Rubble: Uncovering the Two Meter Statue of Athena in Ancient Laodicea
Archaeologists in Turkey have recently unearthed a massive two meter tall marble statue of the goddess…
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