Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could be remnants of a ...

As water scarcity intensifies in the Middle East, the longstanding dispute over the Euphrates-Tigris rivers between upstream Türkiye and downstream Iraq has gained renewed urgency. Iraq often accuses ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror at Canhasan in central Turkey, one of the oldest settlements ...

Through us, cats have conquered the world, living almost everywhere humans do. Yet, we’ve never fully understood how they ...

A 1,700‑year Christian riddle solved in a Turkish lake sounds like the perfect archaeological headline, but the surviving documentation for that story is far thinner than the viral framing suggests.

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon was a major center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world, standing out for its ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...