Most of Asia was discovered by Darius, who, eager to know in which part of the sea the Indus River empties (which is the second of all rivers in raising crocodiles), sent on some ships, among others ...

At Çatalhöyük, the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Anatolia, archaeologists have uncovered a rare 8,500-year-old wooden ladder fragment—the first physical proof of how its people entered their homes.

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

Scientists have obtained genetic material from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived three to five thousand years ago ...

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy's shining walls, ...

It was estimated to be present in 90% of the population of Eastern Thrace and 80% of the population of the coast of Asia ...

Machiel Kiel transformed a humble childhood into a lifelong mission to preserve the rich, multilayered heritage of the ...

An international team of researchers from Germany, Georgia, Armenia, and Norway has analyzed ancient DNA from 230 individuals ...

For decades, one of the most widely accepted theories in archaeology and the social sciences held that the introduction of ...

An international team of researchers from Germany, Georgia, Armenia, and Norway has analyzed ancient DNA from 230 individuals ...

Türkiye has become the fastest-growing tourism market for Chinese tourists with more than 400,000 visitors last year, ...

How we have honoured the dead through millennia? Take a look at some of the earliest such memorials found around the world.