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

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found ...

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 ... on the idea that early Bronze Age societies had ...

This region of Turkey was once part of ancient Mesopotamia. Several stone tombs were discovered a few years back, and the ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

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

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part ... based on the idea that the king was at the top of the social hierarchy ...

Of all the mythical beasts conjured up by the creative minds of history, few are as well known as the unicorn. With the body ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...