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Remains of “love flower” seeds—a plant that today survives only in a remote corner of Ankara—have been discovered inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite vessel

13 September 2026 at 17:42
The site is called Külhöyük, in the Oyaca neighborhood of Ankara’s Gölbaşı district, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the capital. It’s a tell — the term Near Eastern archaeology uses for an artificial mound built up by layer upon layer of human occupation — roughly 250 by 150 meters (820 by 490 feet) […]

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