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

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

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

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... metal from ores and make alloys such as bronze to produce tools, weapons, and other implements. The potter’s wheel and spindles ...

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

These graves contain exceptional burial goods, including weapons, prestige objects ... Basur Höyük was a center of local power with strong ties to the great cities of Mesopotamia. Although it was not ...

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 ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third millennia B.C., according to a study published March 17 in the peer-reviewed ...