Geology students are working on the NASA science team, to explore Jezero Crater near an ancient river delta that might hold clues of the first known extraterrestrial life. Jezero Crater lies next to what scientists believe to be an ancient river…
The Dancing Horse sculpture featured a decorative tassel on its forehead, prompting the Cincinnati Art Museum to undertake a scientific investigation that found it was not original to the piece. Carl and Eleanor Strauss gifted The Dancing Horse to…
An exciting discovery in Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites. It is aimed to reach new information about the traditions of the Hittite civilization with 249 new hieroglyphs discovered in the Yerkapı Tunnel in Hattusa the capital of the Hittites.
Within the framework of the European Archaeology Days, the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) and the French Institute of Turkey - Istanbul are holding the Turkish-European Archaeology Days from 17 to 19 June 2022.
A recently discovered tunnel in Başbuk Village in Turkey's Şanlıurfa province, has revealed artwork depicting eight deities, three of which are labeled with Aramaic inscriptions.
Rare tomb from Hellenistic period (330 BC-30 BC) in Istanbul holds partially cremated body
Heritage Istanbul, part in the Beyoğlu Culture Route Festival, organized by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the second time, between 28 May and 12 June this year.
Archaeological dig in Turkey uncovers massive underground city in Mardin. The researchers believe the underground city may be the largest in the world.
An 8500-year-old wooden ladder remain was discovered in Çatalhöyük, the oldest known metropolitan city in history.
The words HARN STE engraved in the neck roll of the helmet could indicate the place of origin of the first owner, perhaps the town of Aharnam, the current Civitella d'Arna, near Perugia
Study titled "Isotopic evidence for geographical heterogeneity in ancient Greek military forces" demonstrates the power of archaeological remains to test the claims of historical texts and reveals a potential bias in ancient writings. Archaeological…
A prehistoric woman with a child have left behind the world’s longest trackway. The footprints were spotted in a dried-up lakebed known as a playa, which contains literally hundreds of thousands of footprints dating from the end of the last ice age…
Archaeologists, developed methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave deposits in western Europe and southern Siberia dated to between approximately 200,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Neolithic Anatolian communities often buried their dead beneath domestic buildings,2 household composition and social structure can be studied through these human remains. Scientists, describe genetic relatedness among co-burials associated with…
Ethnographic evidence reveals the use of boomerangs as retouchers in Australia. Use-marks on boomerangs comparable with stigmata on Palaeolithic bone retouchers.
Some scientists think that XNA evolved into RNA, which then evolved into DNA forming the very beginnings of life. Scientists showed that L-aTNA fragments could interlink on complementary L-aTNA, RNA and DNA templates without the need for enzymes.…