Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

Archaeologists have a discovered a strange abundance of teenagers’ remains at “one of the richest” ancient Mesopotamian grave ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...

Archaeologists have been left baffled after discovering a hoard of new data from a 4,800-year-old Mesopotamian grave site.

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...

Researchers have found chemical evidence of wine consumption in ancient Troy, confirming a theory by Heinrich Schliemann.

However, a recent study published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient challenges this notion and offers an alternative perspective on violence in Middle Bronze Age ...

2 Buccellati rightly states that “We are the heirs of Mesopotamian perception and political experience.” Modern civilization, however, has retrogressed from the Bronze Age Mesopotamian ...

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...