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During an excavation of the Tavşanlı Mound in western Turkey, archaeologists uncovered the startlingly well-preserved remains ...
Japanese archaeologist Sachihiro Omura, who made significant contributions to Turkish-Japanese cultural ties, has passed away ...
One question that Schachner hopes to resolve is why the Hittites situated their capital here. There are worse places than central Anatolia to base an empire, but not many. Halfway between the ...
The capital of the Republic of Türkiye, Ankara, has been officially added to UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites, ...
It’s astonishing how much we’ve discovered about these languages that have gone unspoken and unheard for millennia. In the ...
Emerging in Anatolia, now known as Turkey, around 1600 BCE, they forged an empire that rivalled even that of the great ...
The Trojan War, famously recounted by 8th century BCE poet Homer in the Iliad, has been a subject of awe and debate among ...
The ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Anatolia flourished and enjoyed a long period of glory forging a successful alliance ...
Museums in major cities, including Istanbul, Ankara and Gaziantep, will welcome visitors until late into the evening, enhancing Türkiye’s ...
Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...
C., but also reveals the Hittite origin of the early Etruscans themselves, whose already discovered remains have not dated further back than 1000 B. C. During Cav. Tapparelli's excavations many ...