This article describes two individuals diagnosed with craniosynostosis. The archaeological human remains were uncovered from Kayalıpınar excavations in Sivas's province in Turkey. The skeletons d...
Humankind shaped the earth both physically and culturally during the 2.5 million years from the day they appeared to today. This million-year-old heritage accumulation found by the archaeological exca...
The advent of cuneiform writing in ancient Mesopotamia facilitated the reconstruction of the region’s political history, contributing to a profound understanding of societal lifestyles and perceptions...
Mehmet Bey Dere is an Early Bronze Age (EBA) settlement and cemetery located in the Ulubey Canyon in inland western Anatolia. This place is unique in western Anatolia with its settlement in the middle...
Purification, considered essential in ancient Anatolia, was the crown of religious rituals. Providing the most comprehensive archive of ancient Anatolia, The Hittite texts have many terms related to p...
The archaeological excavations at Oylum Höyük were started in 1987 by Prof. Dr. Engin Özgen. Since 2012, they have been carried out by Prof. Dr. Atilla Engin. During these excavations, a total of eigh...
Elbistan Karahöyük is located in the centre of the Karahüyük neighbourhood, 10 km northwest of the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaraş province. On the western edge of the mound flows the Hurman Stream...
Palu Kalesi is a fortress site situated in modern Elazığ province. In the Middle Iron Age, this region was the western borderland of the Urartian Kingdom and the primary contact zone where political a...
Urartian inscriptions from ca. 900 to 700 BC have been discovered in Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Iraq, and Nakhchivan. ḫi was used in the Urartian language in several cases, but as a suffix, it is challeng...
Heracleia Pontica despite having such an important place in the ancient world, the settlement constitutes one of the areas in the southwestern Black Sea where the need for archaeological studies is fe...
Şarhöyük/Dorylaion (Dorylaeum) is one of the largest mounds in central Anatolia and boasts a stratigraphical sequence that spans from the Late Chalcolithic period to the end of the 12th century AD. Th...
This article discussed the Late Roman Red Slip Ware which was found during the excavations of Buildings A and B in Amemurium (Rough Cilicia). The wares concern three groups: African Red Slip Ware (ARS...
In 2023 during preparatory work for moving old objects into new storage at Miletus, the authors noted a large arm in a blue marble with broad white veins in the stone storeroom, the “Steindepot” (Fig....
Born on May 10, 1941 in Bakırköy, Istanbul, after graduating from Pertevniyal High School, he enrolled in Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Chair of Archaeology. He graduated as an Archaeologis...