Sifting through the ruins of a structure in central Turkey, archaeologists noticed some round charcoal-colored objects with intricate designs. The delicate finds turned out to be 1,200-year-old ...

At first glance, the V-shaped symbols carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe — an archaeological site in southern Turkey — don’t look like much compared to the adjacent animal shapes depicting the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest calendar. The ancient carving of the sun, moon, and various constellations sits on a pillar in Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey and is 12,000 years old ...

The 1,300-year-old communion bread of Eirenopolis illuminates a fascinating chapter of early Byzantine religious life, revealing how provincial communities integrated Christian faith with agricultural ...

A T-shaped pillar carved with a face on its upper section has been discovered in southeastern Turkey at the Neolithic site of ...

Archaeologists have long pondered the purpose of Göbekli Tepe, seven hectares of 11,000 year old ruins in Southern Turkey. Its intricate carvings have proven equally enigmatic. But, a new study by ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest eyeliner from the ruins of a prehistoric city in Turkey which has proved that humans were using makeup more than 8,000 years ago. The kohl stick, which is a ...

Recent excavations in the Turkish ruins of Laodicea reveal unique pentagonal Roman council hall with Christian etchings. The hall dates back some 2,000 years.

On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War was somewhere between myth and history until ruins were discovered in Hisarlık in the late ...