Researchers in Turkey just uncovered what they say is the "oldest bread in the world." Discovered in the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, the small, spongy object was determined to contain air pockets ...

Excavations in Elazığ, Turkey, reveal 6,000-year-old hearths and artifacts, offering new insight into ancient civilizations.

The world's ten oldest landmarks are remarkable testaments to ancient civilizations. Here’s a list of some of the oldest ...

2013 37COM 7B.86 - Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük (Turkey) (C 1405) 2012 36COM 8B.36 - Cultural Properties - Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük (Turkey) The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are ...

Discover how Neolithic and Bronze Age people in Turkey changed from hunter-gatherers to organised societies with agriculture, ritual and an understanding of the wider world. This tour is perfect ...

A Neolithic City in Turkey An ancient mound now known as Catal Hüyük has yielded evidence that communities with highly developed economic structure, religion and art existed as long ago as 7000 ...

Excavations at the site continued, but it wasn’t until six years later that the lost head was discovered. One year into the Future Heritage Project, archaeologists discovered th ...

Traditionally, copper metallurgy is not thought to have emerged until millennia later, during the Chalcolithic period. Thus far, the earliest evidence of smelting comes from the Anatolian site of ...

The Ilısu Dam will cause the river to rise some 200 feet, submerging this modern café, the ruins of the 900-year-old bridge behind it, and Neolithic ... Atatürk Dam is Turkey’s largest.

This article was originally published with the title “ A Hunters' Village in Neolithic Turkey ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 219 No. 5 (November 1968), p. 96 doi:10.1038 ...

and one of the most fascinating Neolithic settlements is Çatalhöyük in Turkey. On this episode of You’re Dead to Me, join public historian Greg Jenner, archaeologist Dr Lindsay Der and ...