Arslantepe is located on Turkey’s Maltya Plain far from lowland Mesopotamia’s urban centers. In addition to these luxury items, the tomb burial complex also contains evidence of human sacrifices.

Through a basement door in southeastern Turkey lies a sprawling underground ... The region where the cave city is located was once known as Mesopotamia, recognized as the cradle of some of the ...

Mesopotamia emerged in approximately 10,000 BC and was located where present-day Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey lie. The Greeks labeled this ancient culture Mesopotamia after the Euphrates ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Elaborate gold earrings, hairpins and beaded necklaces from Troy resemble aspects of jewelry found in Greece, central Turkey, Mesopotamia and the IndusValley. Arustic banquet scene incised on a ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered and deciphered ... The Amorites, a Semitic-speaking people from western Mesopotamia (modern-day Syria), occupied the area, which is now covered with ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... region extending from southwestern Iran to southeastern Turkey. In this region, cylinder seals were created.

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... region extending from southwestern Iran to southeastern Turkey. In this region, cylinder seals were created.