Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Umut Türkcan Archives

Archaeologists discover 8,600-year-old world’s oldest bread at Çatalhöyük

March 5, 2024

Excavations at Çatalhöyük, one of the first urbanization sites of the Neolithic period, unearthed 8,600-year-old “bread”. Archaeologists say the bread...

A trepanned skull discovered in Çatalhöyük 8,500 years ago

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Archaeologists found an 8500-year-old trepanned skull at Çatalhöyük

December 23, 2023

A skull found in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Konya showed traces of trepanation (skull drilling). Çatalhöyük is...

Archaeologists discover 8,600-year-old world’s oldest bread at Çatalhöyük

Archaeologists found an 8500-year-old trepanned skull at Çatalhöyük

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The markings on a 4,400-year-old clay cylinder found in a grave may represent an example of the world’s oldest alphabet

Visitors to the ancient city of Syedra are playing the popular Roman game “12 Signs”

The head of the statue, whose body was found six years ago in the Tripolis excavations, has been unearthed

The hidden text beneath the intricate gold leaf decorations on a page of the Blue Quran has been revealed

A 1500-year-old structure was discovered beneath the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquake