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5 September, 2014 - 23:50 aprilholloway

4,000-year-old sunken ship found in Turkey is among oldest in the world

A recent excavation at the port of Urla underwater archaeological site in Turkey has revealed a sunken ship that is believed to date back 4,000 years, according to a report in Hurriyet Daily News ...

Göbekli Tepe - oldest known sculptural workshop

1 September, 2014 - 23:42 aprilholloway

Excavations reveal Gobekli Tepe had oldest known sculptural workshop

Göbekli Tepe is a very ancient archaeological site located at the top of a mountain ridge in south-eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Dating back at least 12,000 years, it is home to the oldest known...

Secret underground tunnels of ancient Mesopotamian cult - Ani ruins

27 August, 2014 - 01:00 aprilholloway

Secret underground tunnels of ancient Mesopotamian cult under Ani ruins

For the first time in history, the academic world is paying attention to the spectacular underground world of Ani, a 5,000-year-old Armenian city located on the Turkish-Armenian border. Hurriyet...

25 August, 2014 - 02:35 aprilholloway

The ancient underground city discovered beneath a house in Anatolia

In 2014, a home owner living in the Melikgazi district of Kayseri province in Anatolia made a surprising discovery while clearing out an area under his house – a subterranean city, of which 4,000...

28 July, 2014 - 02:46 aprilholloway

Major find as eight sunken ships discovered in the Aegean

A team of underwater archaeologists from Dokuz Eylül University’s Institute of Marine Science and Technology (IMST) have discovered eight new shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea, near Antalya in Turkey,...

23 July, 2014 - 14:48 dhwty

Mount Nemrut and the God King of Commagene

Mount Nemrut ( Nemrut Dagi in Turkish) is a monumental site belonging to the Kingdom of Commagene, a small, independent Armenian kingdom that was formed in 162 B.C. This was a period during which the...

14 July, 2014 - 23:49 aprilholloway

Prehistoric bookkeeping continued long after invention of writing

An ancient token-based recording system from before the dawn of history was rendered obsolete by the birth of writing, according to popular wisdom. But now, latest excavations show that, in fact,...

Flesh-eating sarcophagi of Assos in Turkey

2 July, 2014 - 03:44 Joanna Gillan

The Ancient City of Assos and its Strange Flesh-Eating Sarcophagi

The flesh-eating sarcophagi located in the ancient city of Assos in Turkey are so named due to the unusual discovery that the bodies inside the tombs disintegrate at a very rapid rate, according to a...

26 June, 2014 - 02:30 Hugh Newman

Forgotten Stones: Secrets of the Megalithic Quarries

Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: Lying half-a-mile across a tough limestone plateau from the main sacred mound, is a 22ft-long t-shaped monolith that, like many other examples around the world, never got...

15 June, 2014 - 00:18 dhwty

The ancient Lycians and their spectacular rock-cut tombs

The ancient Lycians are among the most enigmatic people of antiquity because little historical record has been left behind them. But what has been discovered reveals a fascinating people culturally...

30 May, 2014 - 23:59 aprilholloway

Ancient subterranean city of Cappadocia takes on a new purpose

For thousands of years, people have inhabited caves and tunnels in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. Cities, empires and religions have risen and fallen around these unique underground havens –...

25 May, 2014 - 12:30 dhwty

The incredible subterranean Basilica Cistern

Hidden beneath the city of Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey, are hundreds of ancient cisterns that stored and supplied water to its inhabitants in the ancient past. The largest of these is the...

20 May, 2014 - 14:09 Alistair

Göbekli Tepe & The Great Year

The megalithic circles of Göbekli Tepe mark a transitioning from the last Ice Age to the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution. The circles are not coterminous in age but were built progressively...

11 May, 2014 - 03:27 aprilholloway

Researchers getting warmer in the hunt for heart of Suleiman the Magnificent

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a historical document which points to a mosque complex in Szigetvar, Hungary, as the site where the heart and internal organs of the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman...

Ancient equivalent of tablet computer in Turkey

10 May, 2014 - 23:23 aprilholloway

Ancient equivalent of tablet computer found in Turkey dig

Archaeologists digging at the ancient archaeological site of Yenikapı in Turkey have uncovered a wooden notebook, a Byzantine invention which they say is the ancient equivalent of a tablet computer...

8,500-year-old footprints and graves in Istanbul

29 April, 2014 - 14:24 aprilholloway

8,500-year-old footprints and graves are rewriting the history of Istanbul

The discovery of more than 1,500 footprints and a number of graves dating back 8,500 years has shed new light on the Istanbul’s history, which was previously thought to have begun less than three...

26 April, 2014 - 02:52 aprilholloway

Old satellite images reveal lost cities and previously unknown ancient sites

Archaeologists have discovered numerous archaeological sites scattered across the Middle East thanks to work on the new Corona Atlas of the Middle East, which features Cold-War satellite images from...

30 March, 2014 - 07:00 ancient-origins

Interview with Hugh Newman - Megalithic Sites of the World

In this interview with Ancient-Origins.Net , Hugh Newman, author, researcher, and founder of megalithomania.co.uk, sheds light on some of the most fascinating megalithic sites on the planet. Hugh...