July 27, 2024 The sun rises from Anatolia

3500-year-old clay tablet written in Akkadian discovered at Aççana mound

July 22, 2024

July 22, 2024

Archaeological excavations at Aççana mound in Reyhanlı district of Hatay province in southern Türkiye have unearthed a 3500-year-old clay tablet...

Did aliens build Göbekli Tepe? The head of the excavation answers

July 20, 2024

July 20, 2024

Göbekli Tepe is the most exciting archaeological discovery that has profoundly influenced human history. Klaus Schmidt, who discovered Göbekli Tepe...

Archaeologists may have found the temple of Šauška, sister of the air god Teshup, in the Samuha

July 16, 2024

July 16, 2024

In Samuha, an important religious city for the Hittites, a structure thought to be the temple of Šauška, the sister...

Using 3,500-year-old tablets, bread from the Hittite, Sumerian and Roman periods was baked

July 13, 2024

July 13, 2024

Bread is an indispensable food source in every period of history. In Anatolia, home to the transition to settled life,...

Croatian underwater archaeologists discover rare 400-year-old bronze trumpets in a shipwreck

July 12, 2024

July 12, 2024

Croatian underwater archaeologists have discovered rare bronze trumpets, unique on a global scale, on a sunken 16th-century ship near Cape...

Kalašma, the lost language of Anatolia, decoded

July 5, 2024

July 5, 2024

A tablet found during excavations in Hattuša (today’s Boğazkale), the capital of the Hittite State, in 2023 revealed the existence...

The number of graves in the children’s cemetery unearthed during archaeological excavations in Diyarbakır has increased to 60

July 3, 2024

July 3, 2024

Last year, 54 graves of children between the ages of 0-6 were unearthed during archaeological excavations in an area thought...

Traces of the mega-drought that is thought to have caused the fall of the Akkadian Empire will be investigated in Kültepe

June 29, 2024

June 29, 2024

In Kültepe, traces of a mega-drought, thought to have played a role in the collapse of the Akkadians, the first...

Fire in Çanakkale also affected Assos Ruins and Athena Temple

June 27, 2024

June 27, 2024

Extreme heat and people’s carelessness have caused fires in many parts of Türkiye. The fire that broke out in a...

Quarantine Island, which was established during the Ottoman period to prevent infectious diseases, was restored

June 26, 2024

June 26, 2024

The Quarantine Island, which was established in Urla district of Izmir during the Ottoman period to prevent infectious diseases, was...