From the way we communicate to the way we heal, everyday life has been shaped by innovations that originated here. Let’s ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

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

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

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 ...

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

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

Societies in Mesopotamia could have regularly switched between hierarchical ... age sets in early Bronze Age states rather ...

Recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, this bronze device is considered one of the most advanced ...