As Turkish academics and archeologists continue digging deep in a historical site located in Cobankale castle of northwestern Yalova province, they unearth new historical artifacts, the latest of which is a centuries-old cistern.

New analysis of ancient fish bones suggest aquaculture has deep historical roots in China.

Gendarmerie teams received a report of illegal digging by treasure hunters Derik district of Mardin province of Turkey. The treasure hunters had escaped. Gendarmes encountered with a 1500-year-old mosaic with various figures on it. The Byzantine…

Archaeologists says; This kind of arrangement was found for the first time in the tombs of Xiongnu aristocrats... The bottom of the coffin is covered with a layer of fabric, followed by a layer of unhusked millet, with a small amount of chenopodium,…

The complete statue is thought to have stood about a foot tall when it was crafted sometime in the brief Middle Chalcolithic period, between 4700 and 4600 B.C. The newly discovered prehistoric figurine is deemed a very valuable find because of the…

Skull of Mysterious Jurassic crocodile's fossil found in a Bavarian town in Germany in the 1770s. Researchers found fossil belonged to crocodile which lived in tropical waters. Palaeontologists identified the animal by comparing German and UK fossils…

The enigma of Bronze Age tin: Using methods of the natural sciences, they examined the tin from the second millennium BCE found at archaeological sites in Israel, Turkey, and Greece. These findings are of great importance for the archaeological…

An eight-piece set of bronzeware belonging to Chinese cultural heritage has been brought home from Japan. Chinese researchers claim recovered 8-piece bronze ware may help them learn about ancient state of Zeng

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Broad Institute researcher David Reich commented on the oldest ancient DNA Study made about the prehistory of South and Central Asia and arguesed: We can rule out a large-scale spread of farmers with Anatolian…

The armor dubbed 'Golden Man' was unearthed 50 years ago in Kazakhstan. The costume is made of thousands of separate gold pieces decorated with motifs and is viewed as one of the country's national symbols.

Cayonu Hill is a neolithic settlement in the northern Ergani district, where residents transformed their lives from nomadic to settled.. Pieces of copper beads, jewelry first discovered in Cayonu Hill in Diyarbakir, says archeology expert

Later this year the site in Hungary which includes the tomb of a revered Ottoman sultan will be turned into an open-air museum, according to a Turkish official.

Excavations continue in Turkey's southern coastal city of Mersin at the Yumuktepe Hoyuk (tumulus) that dates back to 7,000 BC, the head of the research team has told.

Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a previously-unknown 14th-century aristocrat, a descendant of the Byzantine Palaiologos dynasty, at the Kaliakra fortress on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, the National History Museum said on August…

Fortification wall surrounding ancient Mayan city of Uxmal uncovered. The wall must be built thousands of years ago to protect the ancient Mayan community from invaders.

Viking migrations occurred following a 300-year period of population decrease in Ireland. This new, data-driven synthesis of the archaeological record contrasts with previous accounts of early medieval Ireland as a period of ever-growing expansion…