Investigating A Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full Of Princes, But No Palaces In Sight
Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...
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Brewed brilliance: the surprising role of beer in the rise of Sumerian society
The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...
A Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full of 'Princes', But No Palaces Nearby
Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...
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Archaeologists baffled after finding 4,800-year-old Bronze Age burial site full of ritually sacrificed teenagers
Archaeologists have been left baffled after discovering a hoard of new data from a 4,800-year-old Mesopotamian grave site.
Ritualistic burials of teenagers — 5,000 years old — found in Turkey. Who were they?
Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...
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Schliemann Was Right: In Troy, Not Only the Elites Drank Wine, but Also the Common People
A team of researchers from the universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Jena has conclusively demonstrated that wine was consumed ...
Pyramid scheme: Archaeologists question claim of ‘huge city’ beneath Egypt’s Giza Plateau
A research team’s astonishing claims that they discovered massive underground structures extending hundreds of feet deep ...
Archaeologists Find Huge Tomb of Unknown Pharaoh in Egypt
The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new ...