In the foothills of the beautiful Taurus Mountains of southwestern Turkey lies a World Heritage site called Pamukkale-Hieropolis. Its thermal spring waters have drawn people since ancient times and ...

Romeyka is a dialect of Greek spoken by small communities in north-eastern Turkey, notable for its connection to the ancient Greek language ...

Last winter, a local farmer in southern Turkey stumbled upon a large stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal with mysterious inscriptions. The stone revealed the story of an ancient, lost ...

An ancient city in Turkey, which dates back to the prehistoric Iron Age Urartian Kingdom in the ninth century BC, has been discovered thanks to treasure hunters. Turkish archaeologist and researcher, ...

English is one member of a large family, the Indo-European languages, that are now spoken by a huge swath of the world. But where they originated is the subject of controversy, with experts undecided ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.

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In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkey. Now, more than 5000 years later, archaeologists have unearthed it, ...

Archaeologists have restored a ten-foot-tall statue discovered in pieces below a fountain in the ancient city of Laodicea in Turkey. The statue, which researchers think dates back nearly two thousand ...

An ancient olive tree in Turkey has been found to be 3,000 years old. Researchers also say the tree—named "Ata Ağaç" ("Elder Tree" in English)—was planted at what was once a Roman burial site. The ...

The clock is ticking for an ancient city in southern Turkey that is about to be left underwater. Despite an outcry from locals and activists, the 12,000 years of human history in Hasankeyf will be ...