Archaeological studies stand in the crossroads of past and present, seeking answers from history for modern issues and relying on local perspectives to supplement solutions. An archaeologist can only ...

It's linked to the religious figure of Abraham, who Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all trace their origins to.

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By Ceyda Caglayan SANLIURFA, Turkey (Reuters) -Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing ...

Turkeys figured prominently into pre-contact Native American life, but the first archaeological evidence of probable domestication in the Southeast U.S. has just been found at a site in Tennessee.

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered a Bronze Age loaf of bread in 2024, offering insight into ancient baking practices and ...

This paper investigates how archaeology functioned in Turkey from the nineteenth century until the end of the 1940s. In the nineteenth-century Ottoman world, an awareness was raised to acknowledge the ...

A Flemish tourist on vacation in Turkey is being detained until further notice after being accused of “smuggling archaeological artifacts.” Kimberly Mergits and her partner Warre were vacationing in ...

We take you now to southern Turkey, where an ongoing archaeological dig has been turning up a trove of ancient artifacts, some dating back thousands of years. NPR's Peter Kenyon visited the site and ...