Oguz Büyükyıldırım, Author at Anatolian Archaeology

Anatolian News, Southeastern Anatolia

Excavations started at Oylum Höyük, one of the largest mounds in the Middle East

August 1, 2024

The 2024 excavation season has begun at Oylum Höyük (Oylum Mound), one of the largest mounds in the Middle East,...

The remnants of the Iron Age are being searched for in Nerik, the sacred city of the Hittites

Anatolian News, Black Sea

Surprising discovery in the ‘holy water’ of the Hittites

July 29, 2024

Ongoing archaeological excavations in the sacred Hittite city of Nerik (today’s Oymaağaç Mound) are revealing surprising discoveries. With a 3500-year...

Anatolian News, Southeastern Anatolia

Çemka Höyük, which represents an important turning point in human history

July 28, 2024

Çemka Höyük is an important settlement that provides important clues about the transition from hunter-gatherer life to agriculture and settled...

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

Anatolian News, Mediterrenian

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

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...

Anatolian News

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

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 Šawuška, sister of the air god Teshup, in the Šamuha

Anatolian News, Central Anatolia

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

July 16, 2024

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

Anatolian News

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

July 13, 2024

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

World

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

July 12, 2024

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

Anatolian News, Central Anatolia

Kalašma, the lost language of Anatolia, decoded

July 5, 2024

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

Anatolian News, Southeastern Anatolia

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

July 3, 2024

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

Excavations started at Oylum Höyük, one of the largest mounds in the Middle East

Surprising discovery in the ‘holy water’ of the Hittites

Çemka Höyük, which represents an important turning point in human history

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

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

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

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

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

Kalašma, the lost language of Anatolia, decoded

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

Fresh

Archaeologists have discovered 4,000-year-old snail shells in western Türkiye

The Turkish Sunken Inventory Project: A 1500-Year-Old Trade Shipwreck Discovered

Archaeological excavations have begun in the ancient city of Shuayb, also known as the “Ephesus of the Southeast.”

Hundreds of Lydia coins rescued from smugglers in Greece are returning to Türkiye

The restoration of the Roman aqueducts in the ancient city of Blaundos is ongoing