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This Is How Çatalhöyük Managed to Resist for a Thousand Years: Researchers Reveal the Keys to the Survival of the Legendary Neolithic Settlement

A team of researchers from the Istanbul Technical University has used an innovative computational model to unravel the dynamics that allowed the legendary Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, to persist for more than a thousand years before undergoing a radical transformation. The results, published in the journal Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, […]

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Heracles Gate with Reliefs of His 12 Labors Found in the Ancient Greek City of Side in Anatolia

The excavations carried out on Street B of the archaeological complex of Side, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey (founded by Greek colonists from Cyme, according to Strabo and Flavius Arrian), have concluded after uncovering a road axis approximately 390 meters long that preserves traces of its architectural evolution between the Roman period and […]

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An Exceptional 11,000-Year-Old Sculpture Depicting a Man on a Leopard Found in Karahantepe

The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery of an archaeological piece of singular value during the excavation work being carried out at the Karahantepe site, corresponding to the 2026 campaign. It is a composite sculpture, 70 centimeters in height, depicting a human figure seated on the back of […]

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